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...VIRGIL GOODE JR. (D) District 5 (South--Danville; Charlottesville...
...third of the students are white, and a third of those come from outside the district--transported by parents such as Virgil Adams. (The state stopped paying for transportation into the district this year.) Adams or his wife makes a 28-mile round-trip drive twice a day from Blue Springs, a suburb of tidy lawns and two-car garages, so that Sarah can go to second grade and William to third at Sugar Creek. They were drawn by the foreign-language instruction, but Adams, an fbi agent based in Kansas City, sees the social mix itself as an important...
...city," with a few half-hearted efforts at humor and some moments of "racial awareness" that are not sufficiently explored to make them really interesting. Then we encounter the overused theme of an ex-sports star who feels his best days are gone forever: Ray's son Virgil, once a college football star, has become embittered--and estranged from his wife and two daughters--through brooding over the knee injury that wrecked his dreams. It is, of course, up to Earl to teach him to get over himself and go on, and he does so, but not in such...
...weekends. We hitchhiked or rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...
WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF Virgil Thomson's impish opera Four Saints in Three Acts? Composed to a nonsense text by Gertrude Stein, originally sung by a mostly amateur all-black cast and set against a 15,000-sq.-ft. cyclorama backdrop made of cellophane, the work was a sensation at its Hartford, Connecticut, premiere in February 1934 and quickly moved to Broadway for a six-week run. Ever since, music lovers have been debating what, if anything, it means. "Pigeons, on the grass alas," indeed...