Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 1931, during a radio broadcast on his 90th birthday, Justice Holmes quoted a line from Latin Poet Virgil: "Death plucks my ear and says, Live-I am coming." Two years before Holmes's death newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, paying a social call, found the Justice reading Plato. Asked President Roosevelt: "Why do you read Plato, Mr. Justice?" Said Justice Holmes: "To improve my mind, Mr. President...
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, as interpreted by Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic, gladdened Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson, who observed: "I suspect there may be some protests from adolescents about the removal of all traces of imminent sexuality from the work of a man who has been for so long their especial comfort. But I am sure that many musicians of my age will be glad to welcome [the composer] back to the adult fold...
...white city on a blue gulf. Beside it rose Vesuvius, breathing a plume of smoke. Around its feet clustered warships, steamers, merchantmen from Mediterranean ports. It was ancient. Virgil had lived in the city when he wrote his Georgics. Cicero had loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse...
...find time for flying, Berkshire has had to drop Virgil, fine arts and ancient history. But it still requires U.S. history, English, mathematics, chemistry, physics, foreign languages. And it offers a thorough ground course in aeronautical science...
Mother Hugo regarded Waterloo as a personal triumph. So did Victor, but he was already engrossed in literary matters. At 14 he had translated much of Virgil, was composing "poems in every form, odes, satires, elegies." At 15 he carried off one of the French Academy's poetry prizes against the best poets of France. Secretary of the Academy Raynouard sent him "a few hexameters" of praise. King Louis XVIII gave him a purse of 500 francs. The great author and statesman Chateaubriand called him "the sublime child," received young Hugo in his bath, read him "huge sections...