Word: homerically
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...Mothers with high-powered jobs like Marcia Clark, the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, may have the most to worry about. In a flurry of recent custody battles, women who don't conform to the Donna Reed notion of motherhood have lost custody to men who slightly exceed Homer Simpson's idea of fatherhood...
...Homer tells us that the child gods are timeless and unchanging," writes Solomon in his thesis-setting prologue, "The Myth of the Eternal Child." "In the course of time, however, Mozart's physical appearance began to diverge from the world's image of him. It was as though the grown Mozart was quite a different person, one descended from but not identical with a legendary child Mozart. The maturing historical Mozart became the porcelain-child Mozart's double, and the divine child survived his own death." Unable to escape the image that had charmed the courts of Europe when...
...sure today's Greek students bear a close resemblance to their 1920s counterparts. Robes, pipes, and fresh from the Great War. Maybe Silent Cal will join them to watch the Babe hit a homer...
...laugh now, but wait until you hear that line coming from Homer Simpson's lips...
...sentiment. His pictures don't reach out across 3 1/2 centuries to diddle your heartstrings. His imagery springs from qualities of feeling and modes of thought that are now almost extinct: educated piety, allegory and complete familiarity not only with the Bible and the Greek and Latin classics from Homer to Ovid, Horace and Plutarch, but also with their Renaissance descendants, such as Tasso...