Word: virgil
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...peeling potatoes, and working in the fields. Tadashi remains deeply devoted to Wright, despite his awareness of the man’s destructive narcissism. This alone would be an intriguing subject, but the true focus of the novel centers around the emotional vagaries of Wright’s women.As Virgil wrote, “varium et mutabile semper femina,” or, “Woman is ever fickle and changing.” Boyle appears to be unable to shake his fascination with Maude Miriam Noel Wright, Wright’s third great love and second wife. Maude...
...computer science course her freshman year, Sandra A. Naddaff ’75 stopped attending class. But she was able to find the saving grace of her first-year college experience in the intimate intellectual outlet of her freshman seminar.Naddaff recalls the excitement of delving into a discussion on Virgil with Zeph Stewart, the legendary Harvard classics professor and former Lowell House master, while his wife would serve tea out of a silver teapot. Naddaff’s freshman seminar brought her into the upperclassman House at a time when women still lived in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.Today, over 30 years...
...that he completed at age 12. The exhibit concentrates on Boulanger’s effect on America and especially the impact she made in Cambridge and Boston. “Nadia Boulanger’s influence reached across America,” Craft says. “As composer Virgil Thompson said, ‘Every small town in America has two things in common: a five and dime, and a student of Nadia Boulanger.’” The exhibit also includes correspondences between Boulanger and some of her students. Most of the pieces in the exhibit...
...action of the moment. Although this made the plot difficult to follow, it added greatly to the energy and swift action of the play. Videt beautifully utilized an enormous white curtain throughout the play, imitating things as various as the ice sheets where the Neolithic body was found or Virgil and Alice’s ruffled bed covers. A convention of scientists from all around the world, attempting to piece together the life of the Neolithic man, provided one of the play’s most entertaining scenes. The actors comically portrayed these foreign scientists, all of whom had different...
...stars' faces are landscapes too: not Zellweger's - with her strange, puffy planes, she is woefully miscast in the role of a beguiling woman - but Harris', Irons' and especially Mortensen's. They're as weathered and craggily handsome as any butte in Monument Valley. And however loquacious Virgil and Everett may occasionally be, their natural mode is silence. Any movie cowboy or gunman spends his time sitting and riding and drinking and musing and shooting - activities that don't demand talk. Our heroes are respecters of each other's privacy; they figure no man is likely to reveal...