Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparable genius-considered his life in quite this way. Blake, who never thought he was a dreamer, meant everything he painted to have the instructive force of revelation. Each drawing and poem-whether small and limpid, like the Songs of Innocence or his woodcut illustrations to Thornton's Virgil, or epically obscure, like the cantos of The Four Zoas or the grand designs of Jerusalem-was imagined as part of a metaphysical system, a means of explaining the history and nature of the world in terms of the fall and redemption...
...labor's tactics was coordinated by Ray Rogers, A.C.T.W.U.'s corporate campaign director, who is out to get other financiers to break their links with Stevens. His next goal is to force Mitchell, R. Manning Brown Jr., chairman of New York Life Insurance Co., and E, Virgil Conway, chairman of the Seamen's Bank for Savings in New York, to quit the Stevens board. That may not force Stevens to sign a union contract quickly, but management is under financial as well as personal pressure. The boycott may be telling. Though Stevens' sales have been rising...
...idyl could not last. Father was called to a grimy industrial parish in Birmingham; their mother contracted influenza and died. But soon there was a new Mrs. Knox, an elegant lady from a landed family who encouraged the boys' brilliance: Ronnie was reading Virgil at the age of six. It was she who decreed the boarding schools they later attended: Eton for Dilly and Ronnie, Rugby for Eddie and Wilfred. Dilly went on to Cambridge, where Lytton Strachey fell in love with him (the compliment was not returned). The others went up to Oxford...
...guru to such American composers as Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson was correct about Schuyler Chapin. She was also right when she suggested that he might do well in music management. Chapin became road manager for Violinist Jascha Heifetz. He held Vladimir Horowitz's hand when the volatile pianist returned to the recording studios in 1962, and to the concert stage in 1965. For three turbulent years he occupied the most prestigious chair in opera, general manager of the Metropolitan...
...Pond Gap, W.Va., a miner's wife walked into the general store, passed the potbellied, coal-burning stove and went to the back, where she opened a nervous conversation with Proprietor Virgil Huddleston. Finally, she got to the point. Her mother-in-law was coughing up blood and needed to go to the hospital, but the family could not afford to send her. Would Huddleston advance her a loan? He dug $50 out of his pocket. "As long as I've got it," he said, "I'm happy to help...