Hints and tips:
...Where I come from, we call these ‘homers’. I assume they call them the same in Oklahoma.”...
...The source is Homer, via Derek Walcott’s “Omeros”: “I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe’s son/who never ascended an elevator/who had no passport, since the horizon needs none/never begged or borrowed, was nobody...
...Okri’s script, drawn from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem, unfolds a story that predates Homer....
...Or Derek Fordjour (1974), whose perfect-pitch compositions such as “Half Mast” at the Whitney last year consider African American experience. Diversity? Depth of experience?...
...Sokolsky-Tifft recalls Parfit quoting a line from Homer in the middle of a talk. “He started to weep because he found it so beautiful....
...Simon Armitage’s treatment of Homer’s Iliad (plus relevant parts of the Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid) runs the gamut of linguistic and emotional registers....
...By the time Homer came to write The Iliad, “he was writing it for an audience that already knew the story,” says Marina Warner, professor of literature at the University of Essex....
...Derek Walcott’s latest collection is ‘White Egrets’...
...“The footfall in Hay has dropped dramatically over the last five years, especially in the winter,” says one, Derek Addyman....
...At the bottom of the 10th inning, a home run by Derek Jeter, pride of the modern Yankees, capped a breathtaking fightback, levelling the series at two games apiece....
...Lelands did not conduct this auction (Sotheby’s is handling it), but they did sell the ball Bonds hit for his 73rd homer of the 2001 season, which stands as the single-season home-run mark....
...Derek Walcott, a Nobel laureate, counts among his works Omeros and a stage version of The Odyssey. Unlike other literary works, there is no definitive version of The Iliad or The Odyssey....
...The technologically utopian The Jetsons was overtaken by The Simpsons, in which Homer Simpson grumbles about the mishaps in the nuclear power plant where he has the misfortune to work as a safety inspector...
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