Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Virgil's Aeneid. Homer's Odyssey. We go to Harvard. We took Literature & Arts C-14. We know the Classics...
...ALWAYS SAID, PABLO. Frank Galati, winner of two Tony Awards in June as adapter and director of The Grapes of Wrath, performed the same tasks for this dizzyingly beautiful blend of imagery from Picasso's paintings, and poetry and music from the Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts. Originally staged for the Goodman troupe in Chicago, it plays through July 22 at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...resulting furor, other abuses came to light: a midshipman had been bound and taped to a chair by classmates who thought he had lied; another had been forced to eat and drink until he vomited. Last week Rear Admiral Virgil Hill, the academy superintendent, announced stricter punishments, including dismissal, for physical "horseplay" involving unwilling participants...
What can be confirmed is that despite the frantic opposition of music lovers, the accordion gained wide notoriety, prompting such otherwise sensible composers as Sergei Prokofiev and Virgil Thomson to write for the instrument. When their work fell on deafened ears, Serg and Virg realized they had made a terrible mistake and returned to more dignified pursuits...
...reassuring presence, a tall man with a slight, accommodating stoop, ruddy coloring and blunt features. In mufti -- which he always wears at the library -- he could pass for a football coach or, with more pronounced sartorial accents, an aging sportswriter. He can discuss old movies or baseball or Virgil. He is, in fact, wildly articulate but manages to wear that gaudy mantle easily, without any of William F. Buckley Jr.'s arcane showboating...