Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Homer to Einstein. St. John's was itself colonized in 1937 by explorers from the University of Chicago, who set out to prove that the soundest modern education is immersion in the classics. To combat specialization, all St. Johnnies take the same nonelective diet. Instead of training for jobs, they mull the perennial principles in the "100 Great Books" (now actually 168). In four years, they span more than 2,000 years of "the substance of human experience," from Homer's Iliad to Einstein's Theory of Relativity...
...compete against the giants. He grabbed his telephone, learned the contract had indeed been agreed upon, but was not yet signed. He summoned a family conference in the company's executive suite: Father Leo M. Harvey, 75, company president; Uncle Herbert Harvey, 65, engineering vice president; and Brother Homer M. Harvey, 36, administrative vice president. Together they quickly decided what price they could offer the buyer. By that afternoon the deal was signed-with Harvey Aluminum, not the competitor...
Some 3,100 years ago, the Aegean island of Chryse (pronounced Cry-see) soared rocketlike into brief prominence in the Mediterranean world. According to Homer's Iliad, what made the mighty Achilles sulk in his tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances...
...find the vanished island. A serious amateur archaeologist, Gargallo, 32, centered his search in the area favored by traditional archaeological opinion-near the Dardanelles, on the ancient Greek invasion route to Troy. For tips on the island's precise location, he reread the pertinent passages in Homer and other ancients. Then, studying a detailed British navy map, he came upon a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos, mentioned by Homer in connection with Chryse...
...afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts some forthright foreshadows, but it takes Strang and the reader most of the book to uncover the blackguard, just in time to save the President...