Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NAUSICAA (Composers Recordings Inc.). This modern pastiche of Homer by Poet Robert Graves and Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks suffers only the vice of murkiness: Nausicaa becomes Penelope, Odysseus becomes Aethon, the chorus sings in Greek to the soloists' English, and the recording omits long, crucial passages. But the music is electric, the myth is fey and absorbing, and the performance-recorded live from the opera's premiere at the 1961 Athens Festival-is as warm and engaging as a Greek night...
...that winning teams like the U.C.L.A. Bruins are leaning on runts such as Walt Hazzard (6 ft. 2 in.), who make up in speed, style and teamwork what they lack in brute size. In all team sports, it is the drama of score-the breakaway touchdown, the grand-slam homer-that makes the excitement. In basketball, the scoringest sport in the land, it is the nerve-burning electricity of the highpoint game. The 1963-64 season saw shooting that would have been the envy of Marshal Dillon: an average of 148.8 points per game, two-team total...
...Redbook (officially titled General Education in a Free Society) described rather precisely the form the lower-level courses should take. The Humanities course was to cover intensively somewhat less than eight books selected from a list which "might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...
Under the direction of Walter Jackson Bate'39, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanist John M. Bullit '43, professor of English; and David D. Purkins '51, associate professor of English, the course will allow different professors to lecture on authors from Homer to T.S. Eliot...
...will be divided into several two or three week segments during which different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...