Word: homerically
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...inning, 39 and not so sure that this would not be his last at-bat ever, Giant Second Baseman Joe Morgan said he got to thinking of Ted Williams. (Do running backs ever break from the huddle thinking of Jim Brown?) In his final at-bat in 1960, Williams homered at Fenway Park. The Boston fans clamored for Williams to come back out of the dugout and take a final bow. He never did. After Morgan's homer that resolved everything so neatly, Little Joe took his curtain call and waved his cap to Candlestick Park...
Vukovich allowed no more hits the entire game, but it was too late. Milwaukee picked up two runs on Paul Molitor's fifth inning inside the park homer, but Kison retired the last 13 Brewers he faced to seal the victory...
...them, Grendel, 1971; The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972; October Light, 1976) in which he examined age-old questions like freedom vs. license through the prism of a gothic imagination that he said was set working by "the world of Walt Disney. I see those Disney images everywhere-in Dante, in Homer, above all in Chaucer." In On Moral Fiction (1978) he argued fiercely for positive, inspiring writing and charged that, by contrast, "almost all modern art is tinny, commercial and immoral." Head of the creative writing program at the State University of New York at Binghamton, he once said...
...with other institutions and laws. And this "is full of danger to the whole state." To prevent any innovations, Socrates forthrightly demanded censorship so that students could not "hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons." When asked whose works he would ban, Socrates specifically named Homer. The poet's crime, he said, was to provide "an erroneous representation of the nature of gods and heroes...
...comfortably mussed. He reflects on his college days, on how a young student at the University of Indiana became hypnotized by the classics and linguistics. "Quite honestly, I drifted into it. It just seemed to go well." He says he was not one of those who grew up reading Homer and Plato and indeed found himself lacking in his knowledge of the basic classics when he came to Harvard as a graduate student...