Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blur the cold, hyper-rational clarity with which he uses other people's weaknesses. When he outgrows the back country and moves to Jefferson (in The Town and The Mansion), his tribe begins to infiltrate and increase. There is Montgomery Ward Snopes the pornographer, Wat Snopes the carpenter, Virgil Snopes the barber and brothel athlete, and a score of others. When Flem takes over the Sartoris Bank, his success is proof of the loosened grip of the older, principled families...
...Died. Virgil Venice McNitt, 83, publisher, who in 1922, with Charles Mc-Adam, founded the McNaught Syndicate, a newspaper feature service named after McNitt's Scottish ancestors, soon hit it rich by selling the homespun aphorisms of Will Rogers to 700 U.S. dailies, went on to establish such other favorites as Dale Carnegie and Joe Palooka; of cancer; in Southbridge, Mass. Still going strong in 1,000 newspapers under McAdam, 72, the syndicate now features, besides tireless Joe, the Flintstones, Dixie Dugan, Mickey Finn, and Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren...
...outstanding students who got in was Joseph David Oznot, son of a wealthy private detective from East Lansing, Mich. Oznot had been first in his class, a concert pianist, on the varsity lacrosse team. Even though he worked summers as a clerk, he found time to study calculus and Virgil. Director of Admissions E. Alden Dunham was looking forward to meeting the unusually gifted student, but last week he got word that he couldn't. Reason: Oznot (rhymes with...
...take the college entrance boards, two members of the Princeton quartet signed in as Oznot, scored in the high 700s (top: 800). When Oznot had to appear for a personal interview, the Princetonians induced a friend from Columbia University to pose. He showed up with a copy of Virgil under one arm, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED under the other, and made a great impression...
...officially titled General Education in a Free Society) described rather precisely the form the lower-level courses should take. The Humanities course was to cover intensively somewhat less than eight books selected from a list which "might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...