Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inning six, Boston: Someone hits a ball toward our section, which could probably seat more than 3,675. The fly ball falls short of being a homer. We go back to observing efforts to start the wave. Loud, sustained booing follows the failures of some sections until people get into the act and three complete circles are made...
...could she have known who played Dynasty's Alexis Carrington Colby? Or had time to care? Till she was 14, Jewel Kilcher grew up in an unelectrified log cabin on an 800-acre homestead near Homer, Alaska. Her father Atz Kilcher was a folk singer, the son of a Swiss immigrant to Alaska who helped write the state charter (Grandpa Kilcher still tools around occasionally in his horse and buggy in Homer, scaring the residents). Her mother Nedra Carroll also sang and dabbled in other crafts. When Jewel was eight, her parents divorced, and her mother left for Anchorage. Jewel...
Literature and Arts C-14: "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," includes works by "Great Authors" Homer, Plato and Herodotus. Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres," includes music by Beethoven and Stravinsky. Literature and Arts A-40, "Shakespeare: the Early Plays," or A-41, including the later plays, take care of The Bard...
...lower-level requirements mapped out for first-years and sophomores in Gen. Ed.'s first year to offer courses, '46-'47, reflect Fox's impression. These include Humanities 1a: "Homer, The Old Testament, Plato," and Social Sciences 1a and 1b: "Introduction to the Social Inheritance of Western Civilization...
Besides, what purpose would it serve for me to be a homer? For me to say in victory that Harvard played well, but in defeat that at least Harvard gave it the ol' Crimson try? This is not journalism. And I refuse to debase everything that this paper stands for by lowering its standards thusly, even if many of my colleagues over the years have done exactly this...