Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impossible to interrupt him as he goes over the history of the two children's fiction awards (about this time his agent, a rather large woman, stops paying attention to the interview); then he says that only four other writers have even sold a million paperback copies in England-Homer, Chaucer, George Orwell, and D.H. Lawrence-but he discounts Lawrence because he thinks the book was Lady Chatterly's Lover...
...Crimson soon suffered for its lack of practice as Tufts stunned the Harvard batmen the Monday after they returned from Florida, 7-5. Four days later, Penn came to town and while Crimson ace Milt Holt pitched well. Quaker centerfielder Tom Brandt tagged a three-run homer to win the game, 3-1. By April 11, Penn had jumped out to a 4-0 mark in the HBI while the Crimson...
...personal dramas in The Day of the Locust are so sour and abject that one understands why Schlesinger ended the film with such a desperate flourish. All the characters from the book are here: Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland in a fine performance), the boggled Midwesterner whose hands, West said, "had a life of their own"; Harry Greener (Burgess Meredith), a busted-down vaudevillian whose daughter Faye (Karen Black) is the sort of teasing, intemperate beauty who slaughters men with a smile. Karen Black is a bothersome actress at best, strident and sloppy; she does not even have what acting schools...
Driscoil, meanwhile, spaced the Husky hits out evenly, allowing one in each of the first four innings, and two (one, the homer by Marani) in the fifth. But after the fifth only two Huskies reached base, one on an error, who was later eradicated by an unassisted Hogan double play...
Hunter allowed just four hits, including a homer by Dwight Evans, before Cooper started the seventh inning with his line-drive single to right center field...