Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday evening and Homer Marquis is an early arrival Illinois delegate. He talks about Communist control of the Democratic and Republican parties. He asks just how much I know about "that Council on Foreign Relations they got doin' all those evil things." Homer can't tell me his hometown because "those bastards will come and throw stones at my house." Questions about the identify of the 'bastards' go unanswered. "I'm saying all this to help you, young fella," he explains, gripping my shoulder and asking for my address, so as to pass along some literature about Jimmy Carter...
...dirt racing technique that requires each driver to gauge the velocity of his car against its distance from other vehicles while skidding laterally around a slick clay oval at 100 m.p.h. - up to four hurtling Chevys all fishtailing in unison. For excitement, the power slide is a grand slam homer and game-winning touchdown wrapped into one. It is this kind of action and these kind of men that draw perhaps 500,000 Southerners on a weekend to some 100 small tracks operating week after week for nine months a year. The sport defies economic logic. A late-model sports...
...more innocent times-which may roughly be reckoned from the birth of Homer to the death of Errol Flynn-all boys (and the occasional girl with rapier envy) turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion...
Will a reader, then, believe in salvation-by-adultery when proper Dr. Winters finally thaws with Alexia Reed, 35, who boasts "remarkable reddish-gold hair, green eyes, and a smacking style"? Hardly. But by then there's been a lot of lively conversation about Homer, Proust, Darwin and parenting, and Sicilian temples. Everybody talks just beautifully on Seton's bus. "The answer to the problem of alienation, to the difficulties of building a sense of community," she writes, "may be to put people on buses." It's not a bad way to keep an amiable but wobbling...
...when she was 20, they formally freed her and sent her on a visit to London, where she arranged for publication of her work. Her poems, often on religious or patriotic themes, occasionally lapse into sentimentality. It is also apparent that her favorite reading is Pope's translation of Homer. Within this idiom, which can so easily descend to jog trot, she frequently so descends. But in all fairness it must be admitted that no other poet currently writing in the Colonies does much better...