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...CATHY COOL Homer...
...building, Manhattan's 37-year-old Whitney Museum has forged into the lead as the city's-and the nation's-handsomest and most dynamic showcase for contemporary U.S. art. Under the directorship of scholarly Lloyd Goodrich, the nation's ranking authority on Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, the Whitney has played host to artists as varied as Realist Andrew Wyeth and Environmentalist Louise Nevelson, while its annual displays of works by younger artists continue to spotlight the latest trends. Last week the Whitney announced that Goodrich, now 70 and with the museum since its founding...
Asked about his poet's intent, Seferis gives an answer wholly in character: "What is the central point in Homer's Odyssey? Ulysses' travels in the world. Well, my poems are my own voyages over the world." The answer is not as simple as it seems, because it includes both voyages of the mind and those that came of exile and a lifelong career as a Greek diplomat. His family lost all it had during the disastrous Greek-Turkish war in 1922. As regimes changed, his antimonarchist father, a professor of law, was hired or fired...
...Roger Maris, driving in still another run, his seventh of the Series, to prove that he's the money player everybody said he wasn't. And Second Baseman Julian Javier, batting cleanup by default during Cepeda's slump and pounding out a three-run, sixth-inning homer. Then there was Lou Brock. In six games, he had collected ten hits, stolen four bases and scored seven runs. So in the seventh he rapped out two more hits-and proceeded to steal three more bases, thus breaking a Series record set way back in 1909 by Honus Wagner...
...really over. From the season opener last April on, the Sox were always down but never out. Hadn't we named them the "Cinderella Kids?" Week after week someone always came along to save them-Elston Howard from the Yankees, Ken Harrelson from the A's, Yaz with a homer, Jerry Adair with a clutch hit. Why should we have expected it to be any different today...