Word: homers
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...mother of eight, taught boys and rusticated Harvard students in her home [and] would read Homer or Virgil as she shelled peas and rocked a cradle,” Knowles said of Ripley in a memo she sent to Emilie Norris, who is the project manager for the University cultural property survey...
...risk of being called a homer, this one’s a no-brainer. Winter has softened the blow of Clemente’s departure as well as anyone could have hoped. Offensively, he’s discovered some nifty low-post moves to go along with a reliable mid-range jumper that has him averagining 8.6 ppg. Defensively, he has settled into his body and, against Penn last month, Winter outmuscled Penn’s ultra-talented Ugonna Onyekwe. Harvard has not given up anything on the boards with Winter, either. The 6’6 forward is pulling...
Segal, who came to Harvard in 1990 and held the Klein professorship of the classics, taught an undergraduate survey of Greek literature, as well as upper-level and graduate seminars on Homer and Virgil...
...Arabian Nights to the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West, transforming them with her lyrical, low-tech theatricality, spiced with dollops of dance, mime and performance art. (She typically starts rehearsals with no script, writing it at home as she sees it performed.) Her version of Homer's Odyssey is a 3 1/2-hour epic constructed of chairs, poles, bags of sand and shadow play. In The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci actors perform excerpts from the Renaissance genius's scientific writings while cavorting on a floor-to-ceiling set of wooden cabinets...
...series, fell behind 0-2. He got the count up to 3-2, fouled a couple of pitches off and then took a Kim delivery to the short porch in right field. He rounded the bases at 12:04 a.m. with the second and decisive homer. Double shots at midnight. Oh, the Babe would have loved that one. So would Mickey. Over the PA system Sinatra started singing ?New York, New York? and you?d swear they were all going to meet at Toots Shors in the wee small hours...