Word: virgil
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According to Virgil Renzulli...
Some parents hope their kids will win a college scholarship. Single mother Mar Rodriguez of Orlando, for example, is a graduate student at the University of Central Florida. Money is tight. She shuttles her three kids--Virgil, 14; Eva, 13; and Sara, 10--to dozens of youth-basketball events every week, year round. In a recent month, Rodriguez counted only three days without a practice or a game...
...opposite. They do nothing that they are disgusted by...afterwards they are happy and can lead happy lives together." After Gertrude died in 1946, Alice lived on, serving Stein's reputation as always and, in the end, choosing to find religion because, as their friend the composer Virgil Thompson said, she wanted a ticket into the afterlife, "since Gertrude, she could not doubt, was immortal...
Juxtaposed with the speaker's explanation (NOT READABLE) Labyrinth, and later he refers directly to Virgil and Homer. Relaying a dialogue in which a simple man assumes El Salvador is somewhere in Southern Alabama, the speaker--in contrast--demonstrates his own learning. "When Mongols conquered the Chinese..." he begins the eleventh stanza, immediately before which he describes a voice as "the London cockney of a Lebanese immigrant." Thus, the speaker in the elegy is separated...
...Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, who in 1965 flew in the first Gemini mission with...