Word: homers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more innocent times-which may roughly be reckoned from the birth of Homer to the death of Errol Flynn-all boys (and the occasional girl with rapier envy) turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion...
Will a reader, then, believe in salvation-by-adultery when proper Dr. Winters finally thaws with Alexia Reed, 35, who boasts "remarkable reddish-gold hair, green eyes, and a smacking style"? Hardly. But by then there's been a lot of lively conversation about Homer, Proust, Darwin and parenting, and Sicilian temples. Everybody talks just beautifully on Seton's bus. "The answer to the problem of alienation, to the difficulties of building a sense of community," she writes, "may be to put people on buses." It's not a bad way to keep an amiable but wobbling...
...when she was 20, they formally freed her and sent her on a visit to London, where she arranged for publication of her work. Her poems, often on religious or patriotic themes, occasionally lapse into sentimentality. It is also apparent that her favorite reading is Pope's translation of Homer. Within this idiom, which can so easily descend to jog trot, she frequently so descends. But in all fairness it must be admitted that no other poet currently writing in the Colonies does much better...
These days, it seems, sports are too important to be left to sportswriters. The bestselling novelist and the professor of philosophy under consideration here are only the latest literati to suit up and trot onto the playing field, drop-kicking references to Homer, Hemingway and John "Rabbit" Updike as they...
This is not fair. To bring a team that the Red Sox trail by two games to Fenway Park when Homer and Hegel need to be pulled from that monstrous pile of unread books is simply not fair...