Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third canto of the Inferno, Dante, with Virgil as his guide, enters the outer confines of Hell and there sees a vast throng of confused spirits set upon by wasps and hornets. He asks...
Originally, the county was inhabited by Sartorises, Varners and Comptons. Now it is just about all Snopeses-the twins, Bilbo and Vardaman Snopes, Wallstreet Panic Snopes, Admiral Dewey Snopes, Byron and Virgil Snopes and Montgomery Ward Snopes. (The reader is grateful for an occasional mnemonic rhyme, e.g., one Snopes is called Eck, "the one with the broken neck.") Malignant, hated, despised, physically maladroit, the Snopeses prevail over better men by their rapacity and lack of pride or shame. They are like monkeys on the backs of men, and they move to "the blind glare of the blind money...
Actor Salyer is exactly right in his role -the Virgil of this sad little hell. Though a ruin, he is a noble ruin, and by sheer force of presence he can command the onlooker to follow into the depths, and to look at things that may teach him a little-known truth about the brotherhood of man. It is not an ideal; it is a brutal fact...
Michigan-born Virgil Exner sketched autos in school when he should have been studying Latin, went on to Notre Dame to study art and design. After stints as chief stylist for G.M.'s Pontiac division, and chief styling engineer for Studebaker (at the age of 29), he joined Chrysler at a time when President K. T. Keller, who once snorted at postwar advances as "the Jell-O school of design," was holding fast to Chrysler's ultraconservative styling. Under new President Lester Lum Colbert, Exner set about modernizing Chrysler's line, put the company back...
When the time came for the unveiling last October, Virgil Exner was not there; he was down with a serious heart attack. Last week he was at work on Chrysler's 1960 models, which will contain the company's next basic styling change. What will they look like? Says Exner: shorter and lower. "We feel that cars have gotten just about as long as they need to be in the foreseeable future, and with cars lower they can become shorter without losing the low, long look." As for public acceptance of the swoops and darts, grins Exner...