"The old generation has pretty well died off," he added.
I added that a baby had once slipped off its mother's back and fallen into a deep well, died, while the mother was drawing water.
A young woman we know writes: Robert Fitzgerald, the poet and translator of the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the Aeneid, and the author of several other translations as well, died last week, at the age of 74.
Lou Jacobi, the mustachioed, scene-stealing Canadian-born actor and comedian who made a film and stage career playing comic ethnic characters but was lauded for serious dramatic roles as well, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.
Melvyn Zerman, whose Limelight Editions gave a second life to neglected classics on the performing arts by bringing them back in paperback, and who published an eclectic list of hardcover titles as well, died on April 19 at his home in Manhattan.
By Cynthia Zarin The New Yorker, February 4 , 1985P. 32 A young woman we know writes: Robert Fitzgerald, the poet and translator of the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the Aeneid, and the author of several other translations as well, died last week, at the age of 74.
