Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which would remain on the moon when the upper portion blasted off, was the already famous "We came in peace" plaque signed by President Nixon and Apollo 11 Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. Also to be left behind: medals and shoulder patches in memory of Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Komarov, Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White, five men who have died while in Soviet or U.S. space programs...
Mosley often trivializes history by reducing it, for example, to a matter of Chamberlain's gout or Hitler's bad breath. He also overplays that luxury sport of historians, the what-if game: "If a certain Virgil Tilea hadn't had a large and stimulating lunch on March 16, 1939, Britain and France might not have been at war with Germany on September...
...everything he can think of that he might want, Mr. Bridge considers himself happy. He has a Lincoln and a Chrysler, a country-club membership and the best Negro cook in town. He has an array of stocks and bonds (which he contemplates at intervals in the basement of Virgil Barren's bank). Still, mysteriously and unfairly, his normal existence seems filled with threats. Waiters "take advantage of people every chance they get." Negroes unreasonably wish to be regarded as fellow human beings. Jews violate standards of business practice and profit anyway; they also try to move into...
Died. Rolfe Humphries, 74, translator and poet whose renderings of the classics (notably Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's The Art of Love) won acclaim; of diverticulitis; in Redwood City, Calif. Humphries' translations combined the best qualities of scholar and poet: a rare sense of artistry, humor and language; his own poetry was less well received by critics, though readers enjoyed such quiet poems as "No Enemy...
Among the material in his files are research papers showing that there are Fibonacci numerical patterns in the meter of works by Virgil and other Roman poets, and Fibonacci relationships between the different sizes of mosaic patterns in the floors of Greek and Roman ruins. There are studies showing that the ratio between any two successive larger Fibonacci numbers is 1 to 1.618-the same as the ratio between the sides of the "golden rectangle," a form that is traditionally used by artists and architects to produce effects that are most pleasing...