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Working on the script of a supercolossal production of Homer's Odyssey, Riccardo compares Emilia with Penelope, himself with Ulysses, resorts to nagging his wife and to endless intellectual soliloquies instead of being the forceful man Emilia wants him to be. In the end he takes to daydreaming that Emilia has come back to him, loses her in a concluding scene that is almost as agonizing for the reader as for Riccardo...
Social Awareness. In Kansas City, Mo., after being slugged on the street by two pipe-swinging strangers, having the fuel tank of his car filled with sugar and the car's tires punctured with an ice pick, Grocery Clerk Homer P. Hatfield solemnly told police he thought that someone must have...
...fields too. In 1933 he led a faculty rebellion against the university's autocratic old chancellor, W. Jasper Kerr, ultimately forcing him to resign and splashing the name of Morse in every newspaper in Oregon. In 1936 Morse went to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings (on the recommendation of Raymond Moley) to direct a nationwide study of the administration of criminal law. In 1938 Frances Perkins appointed him West Coast maritime arbitrator, where he made a brilliant reputation as a fair and meticulous judge...
Odets has given the play no basic style: neither the vivid folkishness that The Green Pastures brought to the Bible nor the Main Street flavor The Golden Apple gave to Homer. The Flowering Peach is sometimes gently philosophic, sometimes folkish. sometimes straight domestic comedy, and at its broadest, borscht-belt farce. What it displays is a meandering fancy rather than a fused vision...
After 43 days of hearings in seven cities, the Senate's Banking and Currency Committee last week issued its report on the "windfall" scandals within the Federal Housing Administration (TIME, July 12). Committee Chairman Homer Capehart flatly called it "the biggest scandal in the history of our Government." The Democrats on the committee argued that there were comparatively few culprits among the thousands of honest builders. But the report was enough to shame many a U.S. builder...