Word: homers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Added Erickson, "some poets used a mythic or classical mode like Homer, others a lyrical mode, like Wordsworth. These men used American history...
Harvard students' financial need has not changed significantly over the past few years, said Martha H. Homer, associate director of the Harvard Student Employment Office. She added that high University wages--usually at least a dollar an hour more than rates for local sales positions--might be wooing students away from the Square job market...
...read Cervantes in Spanish today, he sounds relatively modern, but the translations of Don Quixote made by Cervantes' contemporaries seem terribly archaic." This variety of renditions has some advantages; each new translation influences readers in a fresh way. Rabassa views the process philosophically: "The Greeks have only one Homer. We have many...
Beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday, the readers each recited 15-minute passages, drawing on authors as diverse as Homer and Studs Terkel. Beatrice Hawley, who conceived of the program last year, said the group chose to hold the readings on Veterans' Day because "this used to be a time for thinking and reflecting about the costs...
Students hopelessly behind in required reading for their classes have long relied on Cliffs Notes, synopses of great books ranging from Homer to Hemingway. In 80 to 100 pages, the notes neatly summarize dramatic highlights and offer concise literary analysis geared to the questions that might appear on exams...