Word: homerized
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...best job I ever had," and the discipline has stood her in good stead since 1982 when she persuaded Oxford University Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised...
...connections aren’t enough reason for aspiring comedy writers to attend Harvard, the inspiration certainly is. Allegedly, Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel is the physical model for Mr. Burns. Whether Burns possesses the same propensity for moral reasoning is questionable, as Homer Simpson’s infamous boss graduated from Yale...
PHILLY MITCH WILLIAMS Pitches in three losing World Series games, giving up deciding homer in last...
...Game Four of the Series capped a great season and an even more impressive post-season, in which they lost only one game in their last twelve, always managing to win even in the tightest of circumstances. There were heart-stopping offensive heroics like Scott Podsednik's ninth-inning homer that decided Game One and Geoff Blum's 14th-inning game-winning shot in Game Three, in what was his first World Series at-bat. And in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Four, shortstop Juan Uribe made a defensive marvel of a play by hurling himself into...
...volume, one wonders whether her material sustains the pressure of presentation. An essay like “Every Exit is an Entrance” praises sleep and offers an unrelenting catalogue of literary evidence, but does it fatigue when forced to accommodate Keats, Kant, Aristotle, Bishop, Woolf, Homer, Stoppard, and Plato in the space of 22 pages and one lyric...