Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under questioning from Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, she told how successfully the Reds had managed to infiltrate the nation's schools. Items: ¶ In 1944, there were about 1,500 card-carrying Communists among the nation's teachers, and up to 1,000 of them were at work in New York City. ¶ In New York City, there were party cells in Columbia University, New York University and in four municipal colleges (City, Brooklyn, Hunter and Queens). ¶ Other party cells of three or more Communists operated at such topflight schools as Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Harvard...
Church of God Bible. For President, Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson, general overseer of the Church of God; for Vice President, Bishop Willie I. Bass, North Carolina overseer of the church. Tomlinson and Bass, who favor righteousness and peace, hope to get on the ballot in 30 states, but admit that New York looks like the only sure bet. They plan to stage a five-day peace conference this month at Childersburg, Ala., the feature of which will be the beating of swords into plowshares. From a blacksmith, Bishop Tomlinson recently took lessons in sword-into-plowshare-beating and has been...
...McMahon, 48, congressional watchdog of the atomic energy program, who received 16 first ballot votes at the Democratic Convention as Connecticut's favorite son candidate for the presidency; of cancer; in Washington. A Yale Law School graduate (1927) and a protege of Connecticut's shrewd old Boss Homer Cummings, 88, he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General when he was 33, was first elected to the Senate in 1944. After the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, he crusaded successfully for civilian control of the atomic energy program (now headed by his onetime law partner, Gordon Dean), since...
Where Vittorini excels is in matters that are more real than romantic. He brings to life the hostel in which Mainardi and his fellow boarders eat, sleep, gossip, quarrel, and exchange adolescent dogma on everything from Homer to modern politics. He gets down pat the earnest remarks that bubble from sophomoric lips ("I absolutely agree with the ancient Greeks"). He knows how hard it is for any boy to keep a secret, and how the fears and fond hopes of a father and mother cling like leeches to a boy's guilty skin. He knows just how rumor rules...
When a novelist chooses religion for his theme and a priest for his hero, he faces as hard a problem as fiction can pose. His hero must be a man of faith-and if that faith is to ring true, the novelist cannot, like Homer or Hemingway, give his hero the sort of dash that enlivens the worldling in fiction. His moral lapses are less endurable than in another man; ultimately, and foreseeably, he must prove his mettle by self-denial...