Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit's Willie Horton crossed up Boston strategy by smashing a three-run homer yesterday powering the Detroit Tigers to a 9-7 victory over the Red Sox before a Patriot's Day crowd in Boston...
Horton's drive, his first homer of the season, followed an intentional walk to Gates Brown after Al Kaline and Norm Cash had rapped consecutive doubles in the fourth inning. The home run climaxed Detroit's second four-run outburst against Marty Pattin, and enabled the Tigers to offset four Boston homers, two by Reggie Smith...
...three of its walls. Partially restored by experts of Athens' Byzantine Museum, the impressive 21-ft.-long wall painting portrays a detailed, DeMille-like epic of invasion and bloodshed. Spyridon Marinatos, the chief excavator and director of Greece's department of antiquities, compares it to the Iliad. "Homer is poetry in words," he says. "This is poetry in color...
Orlando Cepeda drove in three runs with a homer and a single Tuesday as the Boston Red Sox split a pair of exhibition games, defeating the Detroit Tigers, 7-2, but losing, 4-3, to the Houston Astros. In other action, the New York Yankees scored twice in the second inning and held on for a 2-1 victory over the Chicago White...
...favor suppression of explicit sex, while liberals tend to deplore explicit violence. In artistic terms, which admittedly in my view are not really relevant, conservatives have much the better argument. The depiction of violence, especially in verse and on stage, is an integral part of much great art from Homer to the present. Explicit sex, while depicted by many great writers, has not been comparably important, at least to the art of the West. This lack of important erotica, liberals would reply, was due to the taboos of most western countries until recently. My reaction would be that, for reasons...