Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FREEDOM is a central concept in Greek literature. from the very beginning. Centuries before the birth of democracy, Homer has Odysseus tell us that "Zeus takes away half a man's manhood that day he makes him a slave." Athens warred for decades to preserve its most sacred possession- elcutheria -freedom. For two millennia, Greek freedom has served as a paradigm for western nations. Certainly, the view of freedom in the Athens of the Golden Age is highly romanticized-for many were, in fact, still slaves-but it was in Athens that large-scale political freedom first existed. Therefore...
...ensign. At the end of the war, he was a lieutenant commander decorated three times as a flight officer on the carrier Essex. Connally used his mustering-out pay to open a radio station in Austin with ten other veterans-among them Congressman Jake Pickle and Judge Homer Thornberry, an L.B.J. Supreme Court nominee-and for three years was general manager and the largest stockholder of KVET...
...HOMER is a well-intentioned film about a young man's growing intolerance for his parents, his home town and his life in Middle America. Too often the script is predictable, the situations pure pasteboard. But Director John Trent has a subtle feeling for the nuances of small-town life, and scenes such as a going-away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named...
...wild peas and berries grow on the point, Lance can skin and butcher a moose so that almost all the meat is steak; they keep their yearly moose in a friend's freezer in town. In the summer, fresh salmon, shrimp and crab are easy to come by in Homer...
...Lance what he and Barbara will be doing a year from now, and you won't get much of an answer. The future doesn't impose on them from too great a distance. "I'm trying to get my novel published. We'll stay here in Homer through this winter. After that...