Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dryden did it for Virgil, Pope for Homer. A few living poets have recently produced such elegant efforts as Richmond Lattimore's Iliad and Robert Fitzgerald's Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure...
Into Houston to visit the new, $90-million Manned Spacecraft Center that will be their headquarters by 1964 wheeled the seven Mercury astronauts. By way of welcome, 150,000 Texans lined a 1½-mile route as the seven-John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Leroy Cooper and Donald Slayton-drove by with their families. To Walt Schirra, hundreds held up six fingers for the number of orbits he is to make in the next U.S. space flight. The parade led to the Sam Houston Coliseum for a neighborly cookout at which 1,500 chickens...
...must be time for reflection or the familiarity will remain too verbal ... Probably,... a course which chose eight great books would be trying to do too much. A list from which a selection would be made might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...
...Virgil T. Fryman, Jr. '62, of Quincy House and Washington, Ky., won first place in the Public Speaking Awards competition held last night with an original speech titled "Slogans and Survival." Joseph E. Clements '63, of Quincy House and Houston, Tex., took second place with his talk, "Lightning on the Right." The speech contest was conducted for the first time this year...
Speaking will be: Joseph E. Clements '63, on "Lightning on the Right;" Virgil T Fryman, Jr. '62, "Slogans and Survival;" Allan P. Gibb '64. "World Trade:" liarry F. Greene '63, "The Eighth World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship;" David G. Gullette '62, "A Modest Suggestion for the Problem of Youth Today;" and Gregg D. Wood '62, "The idea of the City...