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...life of the community, they hover in the air, and that is all, and life goes on its usual way; someone now and then refers to art and artists, but there it ends." Poets would like to emulate the Investigations of Kafka's dogs, or even become fish, as Virgil Thompson has suggested; for they have always found the chore of living among the forms of possibility a tedious one, and most of them have chosen to "climb into a walled garden," as Robert Bly has pointed out. "They imagine the garden as poetry's world...
...than no output at all." Chrysler President Virgil Boyd adds that "one of the biggest problems is Monday absenteeism?the fellow who works two weeks and decides to take a long weekend." Detroit's worst lemons are usually found among cars built on a Monday because they are often put together by inexperienced substitute workers and veterans nursing hangovers...
...make up any of them" -and he chooses words for their sound and meaning, not for their familiarity. "One special duty of the poet is protecting the language constantly against corruption and vagueness," he said. "Most students, by the time they leave college, have read Homer and Virgil. But if you spend your early youth ????? more about the meanings of words, words in your own language as well as words in foreign languages. People today use language for other purposes. Scientists, politicians... and when the mass media come in..." He looked very...
Just when most farmers are settling down for a winter's rest, Virgil Steyer Jr. is usually working hardest. Steyer grows Christmas trees on large tracts near secluded Mount Storm, W. Va. (pop: 160); every December he serves droves of customers attracted from miles around by the high quality of his crop. But this year business is bad. Not that the Yuletide spirit has suddenly evaporated; rather Steyer's livelihood has been threatened by air pollution...
McKissick was followed by Rev. Virgil Wood of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who drew enthusiastic applause when he said, "We are here to say to Harvard that she is a liar, a damned liar...