Word: troy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Troy town, city famous in antiquity, fell victim to two of the prime sins of society and perished. The sins, paradoxically, were love and jealousy...
Although the legend of Troy exerts less influence on the imaginations of men in the present day and age than perhaps for many decades, nevertheless the most illiterate school-child is familiar with the fundamentals of the story,--the struggle of the Goddesses for the Golden Apple, its award by Paris to Venus, the faithlessness of Helen to her Greek King-husband Menelaus, and the subsequent war on the windy plains, and ultimate disaster. These are the events told by Homer in lines that for the few who still can taste them in this apostate age are the ultimate...
...light of the contribution of Homer, it is hard to believe that the first great poet in English literature wrote an epic about the Troy story without seeing a line of Homer, or even knowing a line in translation. Yet this poet, called "father of English poetry," and to those who know him second only to Shakespeare in genius, left us an epic poem, a psychological novel done in Fourteenth Century terms, about several of the figures of the Trojan contest, a novel which is as full of the lusty breath of Old England as it is of the wind...
Christopher Morley's first 41 books have been notable for affable after-dinner humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse...
Native Comment: From a woman in Troy, Ala.: "We've been here most of our lives, my husband and me, and I feel like I'm done...