Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Federal Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, whose 1968 nomination collapsed when the Senate refused to confirm Abe Fortas as Chief Justice, accepted his fate with equanimity, returned to his Fifth Circuit Court bench, and talked jokingly of writing a book about his experience. Judge Clement Haynsworth, who suffered from conflict-of-interest charges after he was nominated, has also survived his ordeal. Declaring that "what happened last fall is dead and buried behind me," Haynsworth has resumed his intensely private way of life in Greenville, S.C., dividing his attention between his court cases and his prizewinning camellias. He has also...
...command module of Apollo 8 are suspended just above visitors' heads; a lunar landing vehicle perches like a water bug near the moon rock. There is plenty of Pop art, courtesy of Andy Warhol and sundry American artists, but they have been upstaged by an American exhibit (Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, among others) from New York City's Metropolitan Museum...
...present time. The musical presents a group of West German nuns relocated in the Southwestern U.S. They are trying to minister to Mexicans and Indians under the flinty, egocentric but spiritually incandescent will of their superior, Mother Maria (Shirley Booth). Into their midst comes a Negro on the lam, Homer Smith (Al Freeman Jr.). It is Mother Maria's conviction that Homer is the chosen instrument of God for building a chapel in their faith-parched wilderness. Naturally, he builds it. So much for suspense...
...whole," he continued, "the arts are the chief method of communication of the day. Homer is dead and his world is dead also. But today, like always, without communication, a proper human life is not possible...
...make up any of them" -and he chooses words for their sound and meaning, not for their familiarity. "One special duty of the poet is protecting the language constantly against corruption and vagueness," he said. "Most students, by the time they leave college, have read Homer and Virgil. But if you spend your early youth ????? more about the meanings of words, words in your own language as well as words in foreign languages. People today use language for other purposes. Scientists, politicians... and when the mass media come in..." He looked very...