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Each member of the class of 1997 has endured the whole Harvard experience and emerged victorious; but for all of the Weber, Blake, Darwin, Virgil, Hegel &c., they also endured a rewardless hardship...
...short-story writer ('Kentucky Straight'), and in his tough, funny, sometimes brilliantly written first novel, he can't quite shake the habit," says TIME's John Skow. 'The Good Brother' (Simon & Schuster; 317 pages; $23) could not be simpler or more direct in its narrative plan: a good man, Virgil Caudill, caught in a crushing predicament not of his making, commits a murder that seems unavoidable, abandons his home in the Kentucky hill country and survives precariously in Montana. The pages that narrate this contain no misdirection, no writerish word tasting, not even a flashback or shift in point...
...popular culture: "In a sense the library is made more popular by the addition of Internet stations and CD-ROM games. A free showing of Independence Day would bring a big surge in attendance, too," she jabs. But in fact, she does not want to replace Danielle Steele with Virgil. Tisdale's is not an argument for Great Books; it is a plea for silence...
Everything I am studying seems important, and every week the assigned books jump off the shelf in their brilliance and importance. The past two weeks alone encompassed Virgil's Aeneid, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk and Frank Norris' The Octopus. I am even looking forward to reviewing for my oral exam this May, because the process will give me the chance to re-read and reconsider great books...
After a narrow loss--by just six points--to retiring Representative Lewis Payne in 1994, Landrith hopes to do better against Virginia state Senator Virgil Goode. The conservative Landrith, who wants to cut the deficit by cutting social programs like the National Endowment for the Arts rather than by raising taxes, is getting his message out with the help of Steve Forbes and Newt Gingrich, who have made appearances on his behalf...