Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic-Composer (Four Saints in Three Acts) Virgil Thomson. On his days off, he has found time to compose a score of scores...
Apparently they are beginning to destroy the profession's confidence in itself. For students and teachers alike, the new watchword seems to have become "caution," and, says President Virgil Hancher of the State University of Iowa, "Teachers were never meant to be cautious." To some extent, the caution is still something to joke about ("What, reading Communist literature again?" said a Princeton student, on spotting a classmate with the New Republic). But the jokes are not much more than a veneer. The academic motto for 1953 is fast becoming: "Don't say, don't write...
...contributors are apparently not yet accustomed to such latitude. For their first appearance in print, most stuck close to familiar academic ground. One scholar wrote about the poetry of Catullus; another about the sorrows of St. Augustine's mother; still another about the various shades of purple in Virgil ("We must tell the cardinals!" exclaimed Pope Pius after reading the article). But in spite of such heavy fare, subscriptions were pouring in at the rate of about two dozen a day-including a daily five or six from the Foederatae Americae Civitates...
...guest star. It also commissioned Broadway-famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille to do a new number, Harvest According, and got its own ballet master, Edward Caton, to whip up another, Triptych. It was again scheduling an "American Composers Night," when Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Virgil Thomson would conduct their own ballets...
...Detroit Tiger Pitcher Virgil Trucks (5-15), his second no-hit, no-run game of the season, over the league-leading New York Yankees, 1-0, after only three Yankees reached first base, two on errors, one on a walk; in New York...