Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in European pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...
...TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR (404 pp.)-C. Virgil Gheorghiu, translated by Rita Eldon-Knopf...
...area there was but one solemn touch. A long, patient line had formed before a plain board platform. On it sat a slender, spectacled novelist rapidly autographing stacks of his latest book. They were selling as fast as he could write his name in a large clear hand: C. Virgil Gheorghiu. Within a couple of hours he had sold close to 1,000 copies of The Twenty-Fifth Hour...
Sextet won him a "neat and charming" notice from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson. Last week an After Dinner Opera Company audience in Manhattan heard 23-year-old Composer Kupferman teamed up with a late impressionist of the literary world-Gertrude Stein...
Farmer Ralph Waldo Moore pondered these words for the best part of two years, as he mended his fences, planted and reaped his crops. Then one day he walked into the Waldron State Bank and handed over to Cashier Virgil Roberts a check for $580. "This is for the church, Virgil," he said. "I want to start tithing...