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Word: homers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remaining Greek literature from Homer to 600 A.D. is "500 fat books," Classics scholars involved in using computers are fond of saying, and at the University of California-Irvine they have spent $6 million and 15 years trying to make that information available to all the scholarsin the nation...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Computers New Tool In Classics Scholarship | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Finley published Homer's Odyssey, which won the Goodwin Prize of the American Philological Association. He has also written a family history about his parents and his years growing up in New Hampshire and Cambridge...

Author: By William Pao, | Title: The Three R's of Retirement: | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

Boston pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd had this to say after Canseco knocked his best screwball for a homer: "He will be legendary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Canseco Rookie of Year; Joyner Second in Voting | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...There is also a certain amount of rock and roll," he said, citing several poems which are set to music. "Music and poetry have gone together since Homer and Sappho," said Ginsberg, who sang last year at Sander's Theatre and also sang on the Clash's rock album "Combat Rock...

Author: By Jonathan S. Leff, | Title: Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg Visits Coop | 11/8/1986 | See Source »

When, a millimeter from final defeat (with the champagne already uncorked in the Angels' dressing room), Henderson hit that fifth game homer, I reacted as I never had before. I didn't cheer or jump; I wept--not a few tears stifled by the customs of manhood, but copiously. Then, alone again in a hotel room (this time in D.C.), I had to watch when Henderson, reaching for immortality, apparently won the Series with another homer in the 10th inning of game six, and, with two outs and nobody on, the Sox came--not once but four times--within...

Author: By Stephen J. Gould, | Title: The Best of Times, Almost | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

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