Word: homerically
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...Homer said of Odysseus: "He saw the cities of many men and knew their manners." Reagan's pilgrimage to modern cities of other men will help him better understand European attitudes. "I have never found him closed to talking about any given question," Mitterrand said last week of Reagan. The allies hope that he will return home with a better appreciation of the need to frame economic and strategic policies with greater attention to their effects on America's Atlantic partners...
BOSTON--California shortstop Tim F li drove in four runs with a homer, single, sacrifice fly and suicide squeeze bunt to lead the Angels to a 10-2 rout of the Boston Red Sox yesterday...
...Hiad and The Odyssey, by Homer...
Professor of Greek and Latin Gregory Nagy plans to delve into some Pindar this summer, but he suggests a singular literary journey for students. If they read anything at all, they must read the Robert S. Fitzgerald '33 translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nagy assigns the Richard Lattimore version for his perennially popular course Lit & Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization." He lauds the Fitzgerald translation as a "beautiful experience because of its artists unity...
Another source for summer reading suggestions sits untapped by the reference desk at Lamont Library, with the names of 35 books recommended by students. Authors range from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Garry Trudeau, but not Medawer or Homer...