Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIDDEN 7,226 ft. high on the Abyssinian plateau, all but inaccessible to the outside world, lies a forgotten city in a land where, according to Homer, the sun is supposed to set. The holy city of Aksum, spiritual capital of the Ethiopian Coptic Church, was once a flourishing market on the trade routes of Greece and Rome, is now reduced to a clutter of huts and crumbling relics in the mountains 350 miles north of Addis Ababa. Yet in Aksum, Ethiopians believe, Sheba once reigned, and in Aksum for nearly 3,000 years Abyssinian kings and rulers...
...skinny women or frail men: all sexual union is of seismic intensity, heroes rise to wealth and power but pay with fearsome personal tragedy. Once these are accepted-and they are not really much harder to swallow than Moliere's convention that all husbands are cuckolds, or Homer's that all heroes above the rank of lieutenant colonel enjoy godly guidance -Robinson's book is entertaining enough. Obviously the author, who wrote a much-admired exegesis of Finnegans Wake (with Joseph Campbell) as well as a bestseller about a clerical Organization Man called The Cardinal, knows that...
...bank kept on growing until 1953, when economy-minded Treasury Secretary George Humphrey tried to liquidate it in order to get the Government out of the banking business. After 1954 loan disbursements dropped rapidly. By 1956 Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart had managed to convince Secretary Humphrey that Ex-Im's soundness and buy-U.S. policy helped U.S. industry without being a giveaway, and disbursements began a new climb...
...leads the list with 99 entries; next is the U.S. with 42. Most represented artist in the show is Picasso, with eleven pieces, followed by Degas with ten, Rodin with six, and Matisse. Cézanne, Monet and Vuillard with five each. The most represented U.S. artist is Winslow Homer, with three. Only Yale alumnus shown: Reginald Marsh, '20, with East Tenth Street Jungle...
...Third Baseman Andy Carey to complete the 16th in a series of deals between the two clubs in the past five years, involving 61 players. Sent to the Athletics by the Yankees in 1956, Cerv celebrated his return by going three-for-five in his opening game, hitting a homer in his second, but still could not prevent two Yankee losses to the Chicago White...