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...even stroke in some groups," said Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the well-known major study of heart disease under way in Framingham, Mass. "The fact that fatter people are living longer may merely reflect the growing success of medical intervention in weight-related ailments," said Dr. Virgil Brown, chairman of the A.H.A. nutrition committee...
...education for an informed responsible life in our society." Thus the Redbook authors proposed, for example, that all students take a course called "Great Texts of Literature" in which the books would be selected from a list of "Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy." Reading these authors and learning the "core" of knowledge that was considered the foundation of liberal arts education did not mean that a student would commit to memory a small collection of finely crafted theories that explained away the world. Knowing a "core" of knowledge meant...
...encapsulated jokes. "Needing the eggs" is her analytic code for a type of humor she never defines, but which can be deduced to be the sober, questing, wistful quality in Allen that sends him harking after illusions. Likewise, the Take the Money and Run gag in which inept crook Virgil Stark well whittles a soap gun in jail, only to have it dissolve in the rain, becomes the officiated symbol of Allen's early humor, heavily based on such lively incongruities. To suggest a more subtle gagging which marked Allen's work from the earliest, there is The Moose...
...morning last May, exiled Rumanian Writer Virgil Tanase, 36, left his Paris apartment for a rendezvous in the Luxembourg Gardens. He never got there. As startled passers-by looked on, Tanase was shoved into a car and spirited away. Since the missing writer had been an outspoken critic of Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, human rights groups immediately blamed the Rumanian secret police. French President François Mitterrand warned that Tanase's disappearance could "seriously affect" relations between the two countries, and he postponed a visit to Rumania...
...others, both through his teaching and during his term as a House master. As Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley thrilled students for 30 years with passionate and image-filled lectures on the Classics, enabling even the most uninterested undergraduate to understand and enjoy the intricacies of Homer and Virgil. And, as Eliot House master for 27 years--the longest anyone has ever served in a master's post--Finley wrote letters of reference for every one of the approximately 150 seniors who graduated from Eliot each year, "trying to get fellows out in the open," Finley recalls...