Word: homerically
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...Western Culture program requires that students take one of eight wide-ranging courses. The core books--including works by Homer, Dante, Darwin and Marx--are required reading in each of the eight, but beyond them, instructors can choose which books to include...
...rewrite history. We can't pretend that Plato was female or an African," he said, "and you can't pretend Homer was Chinese...
BEST DOUBLE PLAY Shades of all-around Athlete Jim Thorpe: Bo Jackson, who plays baseball for the Kansas City Royals and football for the Los Angeles Raiders, hit a 466-ft. homer and ran for a 91-yd. touchdown...
...Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager. "So drinking at the reunion is highly frowned upon...
...Harold Stassen and Viking Super Bowls in between, the hanky-waving citizenry has been desperate to be known as a winner and to lead the way. Behind 5-2 in the sixth game, they thought about despairing again, until old Don Baylor hit a two-run homer, and Hrbek a grand slam. No team had ever won all four home games in a World Series, but by a score of 11-5 and a grace as big as all indoors, the Twins won the right to try. Meanwhile, back in St. Louis, the headline writers stood by wondering which...