Word: virgil
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...corrective school for girls, and, war being war, wound up an OSS operative in the French resistance. In a novel given to symbolism, his chosen code name tells much of the man and the book. It is "Dante" -the man who came back from Hell. Humes, no Virgil, conducts his Dante through the small hells of war, dishonor, and the loss of love. Hell, he suggests, is an endless business, but paradoxically, Humes makes it an interesting one, and suggests at the end that his readers are about to take up grazing rights in hell's burned pastures...
Full Stop. In Milwaukee, Virgil Martell, 33, waited impatiently at an intersection for a light to change, finally stepped from his car, picked up a stone and, with major-league accuracy, shattered the red glass...
...Such noted U.S. composers as Aaron Copland (The Heiress) and Leonard Bernstein (On the Waterfront) have written distinguished film music. Some composers have used films as the inspiration for music that has become part of the concert repertory, e.g., Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and Lieutenant Kije, Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story. *The others: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey...
...Virgil, 29-year-old master of the waiting game, had landed several damaging blows to the midsection prior to the last shot...
...victory in this Massachusetts version of the welterweight championship which Akins had won in this same ring last October put Virgil very much in the National Boxing Assn. Welter plans...