Jewish Odysseus: A SALUTE (AND A PRAYER) FOR A FINE JOURNALIST AND A CLASSY LADY

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

A SALUTE (AND A PRAYER) FOR A FINE JOURNALIST AND A CLASSY LADY

Every morning ABC's Robin Roberts begins the day the way journalists used to behave: straight, fair reporting unslanted by personal bias, a professional but friendly demeanor, and a fine but unobtrusive sense of humor.

She began today's broadcast the same way, but in the second half-hour disclosed that she was just diagnosed with breast cancer. Especially shocking for an athletic, youthful-looking 46-year-old woman.

Here's hoping and praying for the skills of her doctors and her speedy recovery. We have so few of these honorable throwbacks left, we can't afford to lose her!

Here is her wonderfully dignified and classy announcement from this morning:

http://news.aol.com/entertainment/television/story/_a/abcs-robin-roberts-has-breast-cancer/20070731075409990001

PS: A bad news day for people named Roberts...

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.