Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second-game crowd was still talking about Dusty's homer, when it settled back to watch the Giants play like champions. At third dour Hank Thompson made acrobatic, circus saves with astonishing skill; at shortstop Alvin Dark, a hard-looking old pro out of Louisiana State, knocked down everything that came his way. Slowly, with infuriating care, young Johnny Antonelli pitched around the thin edge of disaster. In the fifth, Pinch Hitter Rhodes sneaked a piddling blooper into short centerfield and the game was as good as over...
Later in the afternoon. Dusty stepped up again. Just to keep his franchise, he smacked an honest homer high against the rightfield roof. Next day in Cleveland, Dusty only had to wait until the third inning. He ambled to the plate, eyed Pitcher Mike Garcia and promptly planted a solid, two-run single in rightfield...
...years of World Series history, only seven clubs had won a four-game series. Now, anyone who doubted that the Giants would be the eighth was careful not to talk out loud. Even a pinch-hit homer by the Indians' veteran castoff, Hank Majeski, did not break the spell. Winning the fourth game, 7-4, was so simple that Leo Durocher did not even bother to call on Dusty Rhodes...
...days when countryfolk made up their own words to familiar secular tunes. Eventually, new tunes were written for community sings, camp meetings and revivals. The custom took root in the South, where musical evangelists and composers published volumes of their own songs. One of them, a trombonist-singer named Homer (Brighten the Corner Where You Are) Rodeheaver, managed the music for Billy Sunday. Gospel songs, he wrote, "are not written for prayer meetings, but to challenge the attention of people on the outside . . . They are used simply as a step from nothing to something...
...Ramayana is the closest thing in Hindu literature to Homer's Odyssey. For centuries, young Hindus have been taught to revere its central characters. Dasa-ratha, the king, stands for fatherly devotion; Rama, his son and the hero of the tale, for strength of mind, arm and heart; Sita, his wife, for undying faithfulness. Under the guise of restoring the classic, Satirist Aubrey Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, Dead Man in the Silver Market) slyly milks a sacred cow for laughs. His freewheeling and irreverent Ramayana is a mock epic that owes less to its original author, the Hindu...