Word: georgics
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...truth that all men are created equal and yet owned slaves and may have kept one as his mistress for years; he was an aristocrat and elitist who was implicated in the most democratic enterprise the world had ever attempted: a sweet violinist of the manor who could write georgic poetry about revolution and blood...
...years, falls far short of greatness, yet has extraordinary appeal. Fitzgerald blends his commitment to the present with a deep love of the pagan past (with Dudley Fitts, he has ably translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), and his work flickers in and out of the centuries. A singing Georgic to husbandry...
...came by car and trailer, there was a 101-acre parking lot across the Hudson River in New Market, N.J., with reserved parking sites, food stores, a cafeteria, showers, and two big laundries equipped with washing machines. For those who came by train, bus, plane or ocean liner (the Georgic alone brought 244 of the 22,000 Witnesses coming from abroad), there were billets aplenty from Times Square to the Grand Concourse. Loaves and fishes for this multitude were processed on a suitable scale: the entire second floor of a garage was turned into one 20,000-square-foot kitchen...
Musical interludes for the evening festivities will be offered by the assorted lands of Burt Edwards, Jerry Mitchell, Georgic Grahame, and Chappie Arnold. Every Yale man will have an opportunity to ingratiate himself with the victors if he takes advantage of the reciprocal ticket sale that is already underway in New Haven...
George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth had a georgic week. In a talk to the Royal Agricultural College of Cirencester,* the King described himself as "a farmer-with all a farmer's responsibilities." The Queen wore a thistle tarn on a visit to the royal farms at Windsor with agricultural conference delegates. The Princess, in a radio talk that foreshadowed her adult responsibilities, denied that the empire was "built by cunning," put it thus: "The empire has grown like a garden, not a formal garden . . . but one that makes use of nature for its beauty, of the sort...