Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Courage in battle has fascinated writers from Homer to Hemingway, precisely because it contained a human mystery, an almost perverse will to rise to impossible occasions. Perhaps no modern army can rely upon the mysteries of heroism. But there is something odd and poignant in a bureaucracy spending $700,000 to try to make the fear of death manageable...
...University of Santa Clara. Two days later, the Giants wasted an eight-run advantage and lost 17-16 to the lowly San Diego Padres. Last week they even let a pitcher clobber them when Los Angeles' Claude Osteen rapped out two singles, a double and a homer to lead the Dodgers to a 19-3 slaughter...
...ready to say where it will all end. In a recent game against the Mets in San Francisco, the Giants' weak-hitting shortstop Hal Lanier poled a towering drive over the left centerfield wall that traveled at least 430 ft. It was Lanier's second homer in three years...
...lucent as Homer's verse. It was time to go to the Aquarium. Huntley, clutching a copy of Great Expectations which had passed his long subway ride, was excited because he had previously visited when the Big Tank was inoperative. We surfaced from Government Center, strolled past City Hall, which he lamented was bereft of plants, threaded through some markets, where Huntley priced artichokes, and finally arrived at the Aquarium. I bought a hot dog so impenetrable that I wondered if it weren't some subtle coral washed ashore and marketed by a humorless entrepreneur...
...Homer's poem also treats the bitter matter of choice as the source of tragedy. The hero lived for honor, which had a social and a metaphysical nature. The social was reputation, the praise of other soldiers; the metaphysical was self-esteem, a search conducted amidst darkness for some less venal vindication of a man's being. Tragedy results from the impossibility of living reputably while searching divinely. For the Greeks this was essentially a conflict of religion, in which the waters of the physical world streamed into the recesses of mental yearning. Achilles believed that only the gods' honor...