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...well as a great statesman: "Many of his works represent professional law at its very highest. But it's rather unfair to ask a professional lawyer to present the whole truth and nothing but the truth, because that isn't what he is supposed to do . . ." Homer suffers equally from misrepresentation. "He's really very witty," said Highet, "but has he been taught that way? He's always presented straight-faced...
...Schliemann set out for Asia Minor to make his boyish dream come true. In defiance of scholarly opinion, relying solely on Homer's descriptions, Schliemann chose the mound of Hissarlik as the place to start digging. And the digging proved the professionals wrong, the amateur right-almost too right, for instead of one city, Schliemann found nine within the mound, one on top of the other. Which one was Troy...
...talked his troubles over with Old Slugger Lefty O'Doul. O'Doul told Joe that he was taking his eye off the ball and swinging high. Joe changed his stance, and the Yankees began to roll. In the fourth game, DiMaggio exploded with a single and a homer. In the fifth, he connected for two singles, setting the stage for Rookie Infielder Gil McDougald's grand-slam homer, and smacked a two-run double that completed the worst World Series rout in 15 years...
...Homer's description of Ithaca as the home of Odysseus has kept classical scholars puzzling for centuries to reconcile his landmarks with the topography of that small Ionian island. Berry Fleming's Fredericksville, Ga. scene of The Fortune Tellers presents no such problems of identification: the place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree...
...Southern accent without resort to miscegenation, lynching, rape or general degeneracy to obtain his effects. In The Fortune Tellers, he has put the race issue into a perspective of human rather than political terms that is probably more accurate than most current Southern writers would have you believe. No Homer, he has, nevertheless, caught the epic essence of man against nature-nature in this case being not only a violent river, but a violent heart...