Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much to do except play badminton, lounge on big airy porches in the old stilted tea planters' houses, and stare out across the endless sultry tea fields. The enlisted men took to teaching Assamese kids American. They all wished the Japs would attack. Their C.O., Colonel Homer Leroy Sanders, had said: "If the Japs come over, all they will need is a one-way ticket...
...last week the bungalow where Homer Sanders has his headquarters was quiet except for the routine chatter of typewriters. Suddenly a sergeant rushed upstairs shouting: "Red alert!" Men clattered downstairs. Telephones jangled. The radio in the control room crackled...
...Human Comedy is the story of a happy family in a small town in wartime. It is William Saroyan saying that life is not only worth living, fighting and dying for, but can be an almost unmitigated pleasure. As Mrs. Macauley tells her son Homer, if the world seems to a man "richly sad and full of beauty, it's the man himself so, and not the things around him. And so it is, if it's bad, or ugly, or pathetic -it is always the man himself, and each man is the world...
...Homer, at 14, runs into little which might obstruct his capacity for love. At the telegraph office where he works, the manager is incapable of disliking anything, and the operator, Grogan, soaks away in whiskey the sadness of the messages he gives & takes. Homer's history teacher talks to him with a democratic wisdom and kindness which, if it were true of teaching in general, would long ago have left nations incapable of war. On the job, to be sure, Homer has to carry messages of death in war to mothers in the town, and in these more complicated...
...Longest in history: Troy, which, according to none-too-reliable Correspondent Homer, fell to the Greeks after nine years. Longest other sieges of World War II: Tobruk, 252 days; Sevastopol, 230 days...