Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called it Greece. For centuries this poverty-plagued country has been the poor stepchild of one foreign power after another, rarely able to pay its bills or manage its economic destiny without the aid of wealthier neighbors. All that is changing now, as the progeny of Herodotus and Homer ride high on one of Europe's least expected booms. Per capita income has climbed to $ 1,200 a year, spurred by an economic growth rate of 10.5% last year that left the rest of Europe far behind. In the past five years the number of autos in Greece...
BAKER LIBRARY. Winslow Homer Graphics, From...
...Homer. Alaska...
...Wild West, brought to everything he touched-became the most expensive American sculpture in history, at $125,000. The previous record for an American watercolor ($36,000 for an Edward Hopper in 1970) was broken three times-by another Hopper, Light at Two Lights, at $50,000; a Winslow Homer, Adirondack Catch, at $37,500; and Charles Burchfield's Black Iron, which brought $65,000. That same week, another and very fine Homer-Gallows Island (Bermuda)-also went for $65,000. And the price of every sort of "Americana" -that tract of once largely ignored painting, sculpture and craft...
Hopper's bias toward Robinson soon turned to open admiration. In the season's first game, Robinson collected four hits, including a three-run homer, stole two bases and scored four runs. But the taunting cries of "Go home spook!" and "Kill the jungle bunny!" still echoed from the bleachers, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. During one game in Syracuse, the opposing team turned a black cat loose on the field, shouting that it was the "black boy's cousin." Robinson responded by drilling a double to left. In 1946, after leading...