Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...termed "the lion of metals." Underneath we note part of two arched Venetian foot-bridges, both of gold. A short masque takes place on stage, but we are put somewhat ill-at-ease by the dissonant musical score provided by Richard Peaslee (a far cry from the pleasant harmonies Virgil Thomson composed for the Festival's Merchant of exactly ten years...
...meter of English narrative poetry might evoke for English readers of Juvenal what that poet, following the examples of Lucilius and Horace, evoked for Roman readers of satire: the suggestion of an ironic tone through the epic ring of the hexameter, used for very serious purposes by Lucretius and Virgil. Lowell has done exactly this, and sometimes achieves subtle effects with his rhythmical variation. Illustrating the latter are the first twelve lines of "The Vanity of Human Wishes" Note the suggestive variation of stress in the eleventh...
...Succeed often fails by seeming to run in place. Director David Swift has staged far too many of the numbers simply as people singing songs, with the camera standing by as an admiring observer. There is nowhere near enough sight humor to justify the billing "visual gags by [Cartoonist] Virgil Partch...
...James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Readers get a guided economy tour of the night life of H. C. Earwicker, mightiest of Irish dreamers, whose nocturnal visions embrace all human history, from the fall of man to Judgment Day. A gifted novelist and linguist, Burgess plays a lively Virgil to the Dublin Dante...
Last June 16 she showed up at a graduation ceremony in the predominantly Negro Patrick Campbell School. A near riot broke out at the graduation when a Negro minister, the Rev. Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...