Word: homering
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Much of the tension must be attributed to the fact that some of the counterman don't want to be at Tommy's, and most of the students don't want to be anywhere else. Homer Lewis, who's been working there for several years, and whose other interests are ezlibited on Tommy's walls in the form of his color photographs, says, "I don't like working here at all. I don't like working with the general public. I just do it to take up some time I don't want to have...
There is a counterman who, students claim, has a perpetually, broken arm. There is the graduate, student who gained notoriety last year for graduate blue books while sipping coffee under Tommy's plastic tiffany lamps. And Homer Lewis reports that "Once I met what's her name, the movie star. You know on what's here name--I recognized here voice and there...
Added Erickson, "some poets used a mythic or classical mode like Homer, others a lyrical mode, like Wordsworth. These men used American history...
Harvard students' financial need has not changed significantly over the past few years, said Martha H. Homer, associate director of the Harvard Student Employment Office. She added that high University wages--usually at least a dollar an hour more than rates for local sales positions--might be wooing students away from the Square job market...
...read Cervantes in Spanish today, he sounds relatively modern, but the translations of Don Quixote made by Cervantes' contemporaries seem terribly archaic." This variety of renditions has some advantages; each new translation influences readers in a fresh way. Rabassa views the process philosophically: "The Greeks have only one Homer. We have many...