Word: homerically
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...Dodgers were supposed to sweep the Baltimore Orioles, but they got swept instead, with Moe striking out six in a row. This year first the Cardinals were expected to overwhelm the Twins, then the Twins were poised to obliterate the Cardinals. The reverse happened in turn. A grand-slam homer from a lead-off hitter like Minnesota's Gladden qualifies as a marvel, but the home run later hit by Lawless was a miracle...
...first Cardinal out of the dugout to congratulate him was Pitcher Ken Dayley, a moment of pure poetry. The only other homer Lawless ever hit in the big leagues, some three years ago, was off Dayley. To press the point, with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Dayley came in to save the game. This may be stretching poetry a bit far, but that is the World Series. For the way he marshals the forces of Vince Coleman, Ozzie Smith and Curt Ford, Manager Whitey Herzog is celebrated as a thinker. ("The game of baseball's been awful good...
...mingle with such erudite, dead Harvard grads as Buckminster Fuller, Oliver Wendall Holmes, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Mt. Auburn is also home to refined spirits such as Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christian Science, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, and Winslow Homer, the artist...
...Norton Professor of Poetry, Bloom will give three more talks next spring under the general heading of "Poetry and Belief." Topics so far have included Dante, Homer, Vergil and the Hebrew Bible...
...nation should take note of the Homer Hanky craze. Every day, hundreds of loyal citizens line up outside the local newspaper to get 50 cent hankies. Homer Hankies are being tied around baby bottoms, flying from flagpoles and, most importantly, waving in the Dome...