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...Homer’s seas were “wine-dark”, and he never referred to the colour blue. He wasn’t unusual in this; most ancient texts don’t use the word....
...The novel borrowed its structure from Homer’s Odyssey and experimented with the possible styles available to anyone writing in English....
...continues its run at the Whitney until February, while of the always powerful programme at the Metropolitan Museum, one spring highlight will be an unusual showing of the 19th-century American Winslow Homer...
...Brian Boeck, the author of this excellent biography, does not attempt to refute the charge of plagiarism; instead he portrays Sholokhov as a Homer of the Don Cossacks, a novelist whose genius lay partly...
...David J Critchley Winslow, Bucks, UK...
...Today’s Lombard column focuses on Sky’s proposed takeover by Fox: Has Rupert Murdoch studied Homer?...
...Among his many speeches, he delivered the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture in Washington DC, the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, the Bagehot speech at the Economist...
...Homer Simpson once exclaimed wonderingly. “Is there anything they don’t know?” This is the phrase that comes to mind when contemplating what, as reports had it, was a fiercely political Grammy awards....
...“Iron draws a man on”, as Homer well remarks, so why not cut anything to hand on the way to a sandwich?...
...Homer Simpson, American everyman and perhaps the greatest comic creation of the modern age, works in a nuclear power plant....
...With a profound sense of place, it traces the lives of three generations through change — the arrival of electricity, and later, second homers — and continuity....
...harry.eyres@ft.com, Twitter: @sloweyres ——————————————- Letters in response to this article: The young Churchill’s immense advantage / From Gaffney J Feskoe The precious gift of Homer will set you free...
...“To move up the value chain, more Chinese companies need to take longer-term decisions and to invest in R&D,” says Homer Sun, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley’s Asian private equity arm, which...
...James Hartnett, a 37-year-old management accountant, says: “I always associate short-sleeve shirts with Homer Simpson....
...(William Morris had done something similar with Homer, converting The Odyssey into a weird ballad-speak.)...
...From Mr David J. Critchley....
...J. Edgar is earnestly watchable....
...- Jimmy Stewart is Dead by Laurence J. Kotlikoff The smartest bear we’ve read. Scenarios to keep you worrying....
...Turner illustrated Virgil, Homer and Byron; Constable revered Gray and Wordsworth; Blake, of course, was a serious practitioner of both crafts and illustrated Dante’s Inferno....
...And yes, Homer did write both The Iliad and The Odyssey....
...The late J.B. Hunt was one of his investing partners....
...Irving Penn: Small Trades By Virginia A Heckert and Anne Lacoste J Paul Getty Museum, £34.99 A magnificent memorial tribute to the American photographer who died last month....
...‘The Father of Baseball: A Biography of Henry Chadwick’ by Andrew J Schiff is published by McFarland £21.95 The World Series begins on October 22...
...Diary of a Bad Year By J.M....
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