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Word: homers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eighth, though, the Eagles' last chance (it's dangerous to play under the lights when the field doesn't have any lights), Clifford lost his touch, and before you could say Harry Ohanesian, the latter hit a two-run homer to tighten matters...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Batmen Topple Eagles in Home Opener | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...first new ballet in five years, was the choreographic focal point on opening night. Under a canopy of stars in a silver Eden, Eve sprang from the stomach of Adam, reclining on aluminum mounds. The audience gasped with pleasure as tiny Susan Lovelle unfolded on point while Homer Bryant turned her around slowly on one leg like a potter molding clay on his wheel. But it was willowy Lydia Abarca, a dancer of pristine lyricism, and Paul Russell, all crackling magnetic energy, who were the undisputed stars of the evening. In William Dollar's Combat they achieved what some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Classical Ballet with Soul | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Although his Homer Ave. apartment has been sublet, Spiro is still living somewhere in Boston. In January, during Law School exams, he showed up "in disguise," as a student said, with a stocking cap pulled down over huge glasses. He paused in the hall to speak with a friend...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Rose by Any Other Name | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Skipping over some of the major reading periods in literature, the hellish experience described by Dante, Blake's The Book of Thel, Shelley's Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and John Stuart Mill's autobiographical A Crisis in My Mental History, I should like to focus on a particularly important work in the canon of reading period. This is a famous Anglo-Saxon riddle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Blues | 1/23/1976 | See Source »

...first attested reading period in Western literature occurs in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus, is kept on Kalypso's island in preparation for his upcoming examination. This is one of the more idyllic reading periods in literature. We can see that it was not always cold and heartless during reading period in the following passage, where Hermes comes to tell Kalypso it's time for Odysseus's exam period to begin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Blues | 1/23/1976 | See Source »

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