Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three a Poet...
...from the Harvard community in general, not an achievement of the Advocate as an organization. There is some truth in this attitude. Much of the credit must go to a University in which, as Donald Hall says, "One student in three, if pressed, will admit that he is a poet." Perhaps more miraculous, however, and equally important, is that there are enough interested readers about to support an exclusively literary magazine, especially one filled solely by undergraduate pieces...
Helen of Troy (Warner). "Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, wrote Thomas Hey wood, "who, living, had no roof to shroud his head." Two other cities, Rome and Hollywood, which care more about the poet's capacity to turn a profit than a phrase, have recently made an uneasy truce before the walls of Troystrictly, of course, for the sake of plunder...
...picture was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures. The Iliad is now presented in a $6000,000 production in full color by Warner Bros., but the picture has an Italian heroine, and was actually filmed in Rome's big Cinecitta. In both cases, the blind poet, who wrote as well as any man for the mind's eye, has been translated for the camera's with all possible splendor and yet with considerable propriety...
Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems by blind Homer, the greatest poet of classical antiquity and the greatest war correspondent of all time...