Word: homer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team. George Goodwin '39 at number seven has good ground strokes and a strong overhead. He and Art Brooks '39 make up the third doubles team; the latter plays number ten in singles. Bill Everts '39, who easily defeated the number one player of M.I.T. last Saturday, and Homer Peabody '41, first on last year's Freshman team, will occupy the eighth and ninth positions respectively...
...From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court...
...good workmanship. Despite all European influences, U. S. art kept its character through the work of the Colonial portraitists, the obscure artists of the Western settlements, the sketchers who rode with the troops and Indian fighters, the thoroughly capable, salty and serious realism of George Caleb Birmingham, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins. Even in Sargent's bravura there was a kind of innocence...
Even the plushiest art critics agree: that since the time of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, U. S. magazines have easily led the world in the quality of their illustrations; that the financial success of illustrators has drawn much talent which in another country might have gone into non-commercial art; that all illustrators, even the most original, are inveterate swipers from every source; that magazine illustration in the U. S. has developed in about four broad styles...
...examples of potential greatness, that it is neither just nor adequate to compress the exhibit within the rather arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite pleasing is the fact that some of the better-known artists, Benson, Macknight, Homer, and even Sargent, lose the lustre of their fame when their paintings are compared with those of certain younger, more obscure...