Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...
Professor George H. Palmer '64 will read from Homer at a meeting of the Society of Harvard Dames to be held in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...best U.S. biography ($1,000) ? to M. A. De Wolfe Homer, for Barrett Wendell and His Letters...
...horse fly, having it out through the screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have to read the "Apology" and there, alas, the Socratic gadfly...
...election of the following officials : Charles H. Grandgent, President; Gano Dunn, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Henry Gallup Paine, Treasurer; Godfrey Dewey, Secretary; Irving T. Fisher, William T. Foster, David Starr Jordan, Alexander H. MacKay, Brander Matthews, William F. MacLean, Homer H. Seerley, Frank W. Taussig, Vice Presidents...