Word: homers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...artists stuck close to home for their subject matter, they had traveled far afield for their techniques. Like many a contemporary European and American painter, most of them had obviously been influenced by the Impressionists, by the simplified landscapes of Gauguin, and by such far-off painters as Winslow Homer. Among the more outstanding exhibitors were amateur Archeologist-Teacher Walter Battiss, whose paintings of grazing animals and intrepid hunters were deliberately patterned on prehistoric Bushman drawings, and ex-Medical Corpsman Alexis Preller, who combined something of the lurid colors and slick forms of the Mexican muralists with the subject-matter...
Died. Walter Miller, 85, classical scholar, longtime dean of the University of Missouri Graduate School, whose 1944 translation (with William Benjamin Smith) of Homer's Iliad into dactylic hexameter was hailed as "a triumph of ingenuity"; in Columbia...
Reviewing Cardus, the Guardian was moved to a flattering comparison: "Where would Homer's gods and heroes ... be without Homer...
Musical Kidneys. Cricket's Homer, a self-described bastard, was born 54 years ago in a Manchester slum. His buxom mother and her two sisters took in laundry until they learned that taking lovers was more rewarding; Neville was one of the rewards. His father, whom he never knew, was first violinist in an orchestra...
...those of us who have attended Bread Loaf School about a mile up the road from Homer Noble Farm, the article and picture served as a sort of reunion with both that lovely mountain-girt country and the remarkable Robert Frost . . . My friends and fellow students of other years at Bread Loaf will long remember his puckish wit and astounding erudition on any subject. An afternoon talk with Frost in his tiny cabin set up the hillside from the Noble house, his shepherd dog Gillie lying by the fire and appearing to listen as his master talks of a variety...