Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Designed to introduce the assembled company of educated men and women to current scholarship in most academic fields, symposia topics run the intellectual gamut from the Greek poet Homer to the latest discoveries about the AIDS virus...
...dumb luck," says Schaire, 32, the magazine's energetic executive editor, whose first art job was driving a forklift for the Metropolitan Museum's gift-shop warehouse. He requested the interview by letter in November 1984 (enclosing a copy of the magazine with a cover story on, coincidentally, "Winslow Homer's Mystery Woman"). Six months later a Wyeth intermediary replied that the publicity-shy artist would agree to talk...
...exchange for the Russian paintings, the U.S. will send 65 American paintings from approximately the same time period--including works by Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent--to Leningrad and Moscow museums...
DETROIT -- Darnell Coles had three RBI, two on an eighth-inning homer, and Walt Terrell limited Seattle to five hits yesterday leading the Detroit Tigers to a 12-0 rout of the Seattle Mariners...
...Brewers rapped 15 hits, including a three-run homer by Paul Householder and a solo shot by Dale Sveum. Ernest Riles' RBI single broke an 8-8 tie in the seventh and Householder homered later in the inning...