Word: homers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of helplessness in this matter. Our books are ourselves, our characters, our insulation against those very people who would take away our books. There, on that wall, Ahab storms. Hamlet mulls. Molly Bloom says yes yes yes. Keats looks into Chapman, who looks at Homer, who looks at Keats. All this happens on a bookshelf continually-while you are out walking the dog, or pouting or asleep. The Punic Wars rage; Emma Bovary pines; Bacon exhorts others to behave the way he never could. Here French is spoken. There Freud. So go war and peace, pride and prejudice, decline...
Sandwiched around the win over the Sox and Eddie Popowski, the Crimson dropped two decisions to the minor-leaguers. On Thursday, the Red Sox bombed the Crimson hurlers for 10 runs and Harvard's lone tally came on a Vinnie Martelli homer. Saturday, in a game played at Chain O'Lakes Park--where the Red Sox' parent club plays its home spring training games--the Red Sox prospects prevailed, 8-4, despite a long home run by normally light-hitting Harvard second baseman Gaylord Lyman...
That bitter game has long fascinated George Steiner, 52, polymathic professor of literature and author of brilliant essays ranging from Homer to Schoenberg and Heidegger. So when he heard that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal had found the spoor of Mass Murderer Martin Bormann, he began to concoct a scenario: What might happen if a group of Jewish avengers located the Führer? The resulting novel, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., has already aroused angry controversy in Britain ("Astonishing," Anthony Burgess wrote in the Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy...
Dave Eagle's two-run homer in the fifth inning gave the Minnesota Twins a 4-3 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox yesterday afternoon in Orlando Boston first baseman Tony Perez contributed a two-run homer to the losing cause. The Sox, who open against Chicago April 12, are 5-6 in exhibition play...
...lousy script and poor tuning it's easy to understand why the actors often seem uninspiring. Had Vonnegut polished his modern-day Odyssey better, perhaps Kirkland could have utilized the talents simmering in most of the cast. But for the time being. You'd do better to stick with Homer...