Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virgil to Eliot. For a historian such as Gibbon (1737-94), says Lewis, it was only natural to see the chasm between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. "The partial loss of ancient learning and its recovery at the Renaissance were for him both unique events . . . But we have lived to see the second death of ancient learning. In our time something which was once the possession of all educated men has shrunk to being the technical accomplishment of a few specialists . . . "To Gibbon the literary change from Virgil to Beowulf . . . would have seemed greater than...
...produced a study of Thucydides and Democritus, and is preparing a book on "Virgil as Poet...
...Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Fund has commissioned and premiered Menotti's The Medium, Virgil Thomson's Mother of Us All, symphonies by Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Randall Thompson...
Shortage. In Kansas City, Mo., Motorist Walter Virgil Stone, after ramming another car, admitted that something was wrong with his own car, was charged by police with driving without driver's license, registration, city tag, headlights and adequate brakes...
NORTH TO DANGER, by Virgil Burford as told to Walt Morey (254 pp.; John Day $3.75) makes a fine companion piece to Scott's elephant adventure. Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same traps -amidst sharks and 20-foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down...