Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee listened attentively, while Bilbo mangled a cigar. Then Michigan's Homer Ferguson, a relentless inquisitor, switched his approach. He asked Terry what he had done with the $15,000 given him by New York radical Simon Liberman for use against Bilbo in Mississippi's Democratic primary last July. Abruptly, Terry refused to answer and the committee cited him for contempt...
...HOMER: THE ODYSSEY-A New Translation by E. V. Rieu (31 I pp.)-Penguin Books...
William Morris' verse translation (1887) of the Odyssey came nearest to doing it poetic justice in modern English.* Well-known prose translators-Samuel Butler, S. K. Butcher, T. E. Lawrence-have put it into their own idioms, neither Homer's nor that of poetry. E. V. Rieu's is the best of the more modest prose translations intended as transparencies, making it easy for the reader to follow the Odyssey as a wondrous novel of adventure...
Last week 71-year-old Dr. Wood decided that "thirty-five years of living with 2,000 women is all any man is entitled to. . . ."As his successor, Stephens curators picked popular Homer Price Rainey, 50, ousted president of the University of Texas and recently defeated candidate for governor of Texas. Rainey intends to spend six months at Stephens before he says what he thinks about...
Most notable performance (and the one which best shows off Director Wyler's skill) is given by ex-Paratrooper Harold Russell, 32. Cast as a handicapped sailor named Homer Parrish, Russell actually plays himself. He is no actor and no one pretends that he is, but his performance is more affecting than any professional's could be. Director Wyler merely surrounded Russell with plot and let the cameraman follow the calm, strong, unhandsome Russell face. The audience fills in all the emotion that is needed as the unembarrassed camera studies the two skillfully articulated metal hooks that Russell...