Word: homers
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...McGwire?s record. As Ed watched SportsCenter and I sat nearby reading, Bonds? season in homeruns played across the screen. "Will you look at that," Ed murmured in wonder. "That?s something else." I glanced up, distracted by the swelling, Roy Hobbs-esque music, and saw Bonds rip another homer...
...which is largely a memoir of the Mercury days, "he was capable of expressing an almost unlimited range of moods and emotions." (When, I won-der, did young Orson?s voice change? And was that the moment when he knew he?d be an actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop at a campfire, weaving worlds with words. "Everybody likes a good story," he said when "Campbell Playhouse" began, "and I think radio is just about the best storyteller there is." Thomson sees an ideal match of this man and this medium: "[H]e loved to float away...
...span in my class is from seventeen to seventy, and it makes for a very rich teaching environment,” says Theo C. Theoharis, who teaches in the extension school and whose comparative literature class on Homer, Dante, and James Joyce is a favorite among summer school students...
...always at stake: the arms race begun in World War II, the scar of our country dividing North and South, the fascism of the post office. Stick to what you know is good advice for a writing seminar, but it will never get you into the ring with Homer...
...first time, how that used to be an impossible Wiffle ball shot from home plate to the back of the house. I jog and count: It's actually only a dozen adult strides. I wasn't much older than Caroline is now when hitting that wall was called a homer...