Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Sir Cedric Hardwicke illustrates "The Grandeur and Misery of Man" with readings from Homer, the Bible, Shakespeare, Keats, Dylan Thomas...
Last week the season rose to a climax as Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela met in Panama in a round-robin fight for the twelfth annual Caribbean championship. When Panama's Elias Osorio hit a two-run homer over the wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient...
...outlawed by the Belgians 40 years ago, but the local misheke, or tribal poison mixer, remains a man of high honor and awesome power. In recent weeks, since the revival of tschipapa trials, 241 witches have been poisoned to death, reported New York Times Correspondent Homer Bigart...
...Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. The bad boy of the classicists brilliantly carries out an engaging idea: that the Iliad was intended to be a satire of gods, kings and heroes...