Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson nine came back, however, and did they ever come back. An infield homer by Crimson president Nick "Crazy Legs" Lemann started off the scoring barrage that promised to be unrelenting throughout the seven -inning contest...
...stoic virtue and exemplary action that unfolds in them is far removed from the reality of the Revolution. The fate of David's portrait of Lavoisier and His Wife was instructive. He rendered this savant, the discoverer of oxygen, in heroic terms, though muted by domesticity; like Homer or Dante, Lavoisier is seen with symbolic appurtenances (the magnificent still life of scientific instruments does duty for the bardic wreath and scroll), presided over by his wife as Muse. Yet Lavoisier was guillotined in the Terror, and the painting was kept from exhibition for political reasons...
Inside, the visitor saw drawings by Ingres, Delacroix, and Homer, 17th and 18th century British and French paintings, clocks and ceramics, pre-Colombian stone idols and ancient Chinese bronzes and jades, all placed with sedulous care on walls and in special cases...
Robert Fitzgerald has advanced a plausible theory: not only had Homer never written anything before the Odyssey; he had not read anything before it. This puts Erich Segal way ahead of any preliterate Greek singer. Segal has not only written other works, including Love Story; he has apparently ransacked every Homeric adaptation from Aeschylus to James Joyce for this musical production, Odyssey. "Why copy when you can steal?" he asks in a program footnote to the execrable production at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington...
...reign but its interruptions that grant him stature. With a strange accent that suggests all nations and an abiding virility, Brynner gives the musical its few seconds of truth and vitality. Lest they endure, Joan Diener, as Penelope, always manages to shriek them to a close. In Homer's Odyssey, the goddess Circe changes the hero's shipmates into swine. In this Odyssey the manufacturers have exceeded her feat; they have taken a masterpiece and turned it into...