Word: virgil
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...DIED. Virgil Fox, 68, flamboyant organist whose technical mastery and theatrical flair attracted millions to the instrument; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. The son of an Illinois harmonica player and theater owner, Fox was organist at Manhattan's Riverside Church for 19 years and was invited to play virtually all the world's great church organs, but he was best known for his more than 30 recordings and his freewheeling concert appearances, at which he favored iridescent jack ets, rhinestone-studded shoes and a full-length, crimson-lined cape. After he began wooing a new generation...
...Medeiros of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, Bishop Edward G. Carroll of the United Methodist Church, Rabbi Herman Blumberg of the American Jewish Committee, Luster, Fr. Ernest Serino of St. Catherine's in Charlestown, Fr. Walter Waldron of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, and Dr. Virgil Wood, dean of the African-American Institute at Northeastern University, still meets at rotating locations each Thursday to discuss ways to make the Covenant work. As of last February, some 275,000 people had signed the statement, and programs for youth participation, a pulpit exchange between churches, and emphasis...
...students of a dynamic teacher. In the years before his illness Grandine taught both Shakespeare and epic poetry with a quiet intensity, able with acumen and dry with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help us make sense of our own lives...
...State Department Officer John Limbert. Last month, 47 of the hostage families endorsed a letter sent to Carter threatening to protest if he allowed the Shah back into the U.S. for medical care. Some families feel that the President's moves against Iran should have begun earlier. Said Virgil Sickmann, whose son Rodney was a Marine guard at the embassy: "I wish the President had taken these actions two months sooner. If he had done it then, I think that by this time Iran would have become a little weakened." Added Mary Needham, whose son Paul...
...radio's Chesterfield Hour. After making the program a hit, he added to his celebrity by marrying Opera Diva Lily Pons in 1938 (they divorced in 1958) and by cutting more than 200 discs with Columbia (life time record sales: 52 million). He commissioned works by Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and other Americans that became repertory standards. And while he would outrage purists by making a medley of a Tchaikovsky movement and a pop tune, "Kosty" had his reasons: "Criticism is upsetting, but if what I do expands the meaning of music in terms of attendance, that...