Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughter: "If I don't come back, don't worry. Don't cry. I will have died happy in Europe." Another woman wrote from Greece: "I have found here peace and beauty and understanding. Now, for the first time, I want to come back and read Homer and all the new and old books about the Greeks. I could feel all this stirring anew in my mind, and I felt well and sure." There were some last week who thought that Atlanta's cultural life had perished in the cherry orchard. But the tragedy gave resolution...
There must be time for reflection or the familiarity will remain too verbal ... Probably,... a course which chose eight great books would be trying to do too much. A list from which a selection would be made might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...
...novel about collegians on vacation, has now taken a giant step into Greek tragedy. He should have stayed with the boys in Fort Lauderdale. Greek grandeur is not duplicated by a setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...
...eighth, Jacques Shure's homer, a hit batsman, and two singles scored three more for the Indians. Harvard three more for the Indians. Harvard rallied in the ninth, and with the help of three Dartmouth errors managed to score three times before the threat was extinguished by French...
Gilmore rescued Del Rossi When Harvard came to bat, though, with another 400 blast over the centerfielder's head for a homer: his third in the last three games...