Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slammed a fastball into the rightfield bleachers. In the eighth he sailed another into the leftfield screen, and Boston's home crowd of 14,922 gave him a standing ovation. Next night the old outpatient blasted two more, then traveled south to Washington, where he poled four more homers in three games against the Senators to make it eight in six days. Last week, with the Yanks locked in a 2-2 tie against the Red Sox, Mantle came to bat with two men on, two out, in the bottom of the ninth. Boom! He cracked a game-winning...
...century U.S. painting. Whether seas of grass or prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...
Image of Man. Unlike Western artists spellbound by the herculean Rockies, Homer mapped the more mercurial Eastern seacoast. From the Adirondack lakes, he followed streams in his fishing scenes down to where lonely dorymen bobbed on the icy Atlantic banks and sailors were blown through tropical cays. Ever present in Homer is the imminence of brewing nor'easters and hurricanes. But in fair weather or foul, Homer insisted on the image of man prevailing against nature...
...Homer became one of the U.S.'s favorite artists; he still is. Last week exhibitions of his work opened at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., and Buffalo, N.Y.'s Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Despite his popularity, the artist quit New York City in 1883 for a wave-washed promontory in Maine called Prouts Neck. There the lifelong bachelor worked in a cliffside clapboard studio. Despite his old saltitude, he ordered his natty wardrobe from Brooks Brothers and purchased $40 worth of fine Jamaican rum a month from Boston's fancy S. S. Pierce for his hourly tots...
...matter how Surveyor fares in the darkness, however, it has already accomplished enough to generate some inspired scientific prose. Rhapsodized NASA Associate Administrator Homer Newell: "Today Surveyor stands alone in the dark on the desolate plain of the Ocean of Storms, a solitary artifact of men who live on another body of the solar system, 240,000 miles away...