Word: homers
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When TIME was launched 43 years ago this month, the "library" the editors took with them to the print shop the first night that they went to press consisted of half a dozen reference works and, appropriately enough, a copy of Homer's Iliad. Today's library, which occupies half of the 26th floor of the TIME & LIFE Building, houses some 83,000 books, half a million biographic and other file folders, and is staffed by 117 men and women, 22 of whom hold degrees in library science. The bureau also maintains a microfilm section...
...foremost Episcopal parishes refused to sign any more pledge checks; one millionaire eliminated a fat bequest to the parish from his will. Undeterred, Alinsky publicly described the city's Negro area as a "zoo," got embroiled in an acrimonious argy-bargy with Board of Education President Homer Wadsworth, who declared: "Alinsky has the smell of the '30s about him." Retorted Alinsky: "We still have the smell of despair and oppression. Mr. Wadsworth smells nice. It's the smell of bankers and cologne." Whereupon Saul flew away to tend chores elsewhere, leaving Squire Lance, a militant Negro aide...
While most lower-level humanities courses begin with and concentrate on Homer, Hum 9 will give students an opportunity to read the Homeric epics in conjunction with the Bible. Lord thinks that people rarely realize that in fact these were written in part simultaneously, somewhere around the eighth century...
...after the fall of Troy. The mock heroics are well sustained, though Burgess now modestly sees the Virgilian parallel as a "tyro's method of giving his story a backbone," as Joyce used the Odyssey to underpin Ulysses. But Burgess is not Virgil any more than Joyce was Homer. His hero loses nothing by being a comic rather than a classic. He has also been given another dimension. If Ennis is not much of a Roman, he is fatally a Roman Catholic, a failed one, trying to get free of his faith. He has not been to confession...
...HOMER GARRISON JR. Director, Texas Department of Public