Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Homer's descriptions of Troy's walls and gates sounded like history, not storytelling. And in excavations begun in 1870 at Hissarlik, a Turkish settlement south of the Dardanelles, he proved that he was right...
...most university-trained scholars, Schliemann's notion was pathetically naive. Homer himself they considered to be not one man but a loose guild of poets, and Troy merely a vivid legend with no basis in fact. Schliemann had money, unlimited energy and formidable intellectual powers on his side of the argument. He is said to have been able to learn a new language in three weeks...
...Thema (Omaggio a Joyce), Berio uses the reverse process. At the beginning, a woman reads a passage from Ulysses. When she is done, the sounds are broken down and reorganized by electronic means. The effect is like hearing Homer being read in Greek; you can be deeply affected by spoken sounds without any knowledge of their meaning. The demands of literature restricted Homer's musical achievement, but Berio uses spoken sounds as he would use notes and reveals some of the musical underpinnings of the English language...
...ninth when big, very big George Scott, the former Red Sox first baseman who was traded despite his great value, stepped up to the plate, leered above his animal-tooth lovebeads and slammed a home run. He loved taking his revenge. The next player proceeded to hit another homer, and a Boston pitcher's bid for immortality dribbled away down the parking lot of Milwaukee's County Stadium. It might be mentioned that the aforementioned Reggie Cleveland, who is a Canadian, is an expect in the spot of curling. This sums it up. Most of the rest of the staff...
...novel is carefully framed between 1902 and 1917, surrounding the robust, unambiguous patriotism of Teddy Roosevelt and the complex, brooding morality of Woodrow Wilson. It was Winslow Homer time, when, as Doctorow writes, "a certain light was still available along the Eastern seaboard." Eccentrics still putter in their garages and produce inventions without the aid of research-and-development bureaucracies. Henry Ford's new assembly line and Albert Einstein's peculiar idea that the universe is curved crack the dawn of the modern age. Before long, Doctorow notes, painters in Paris will be putting two eyes...