Word: homers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Brett's "pine tar" home run provided perhaps the most memorable news from last year's baseball season. Who was on base when Brett hit the tworun homer against the Yankees...
DIED. Richmond Lattimore, 77, distinguished American poet and classical scholar whose literal yet lyrical translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were widely praised for their scrupulous adherence to the original Greek metrical pattern and syntax; of cancer; in Rosemont, Pa. A professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College from 1935 to 1971, Lattimore also produced five volumes of original poetry, which earned him critical praise and, only last month, a $10,000 award from the Academy of American Poets...
...music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr) and his home-front brother Homer (Stephen Geoffreys) that develops into a touching antiwar choral...
Because checks have come into Harvard Trust all week, Homer says a large part of the office's work has been "de-dotting people who are financially clear after Monday...
...take on any extra help to deal with the flood of cash. Harvard Trust does the time-consuming work of opening and sorting 12.000 envelopes, and "it's fairly complicated when the money comes over--not the kind of stuff you can use Kelly Girls or Accountemps for." Homer says...