Word: virgil
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...contributors are apparently not yet accustomed to such latitude. For their first appearance in print, most stuck close to familiar academic ground. One scholar wrote about the poetry of Catullus; another about the sorrows of St. Augustine's mother; still another about the various shades of purple in Virgil ("We must tell the cardinals!" exclaimed Pope Pius after reading the article). But in spite of such heavy fare, subscriptions were pouring in at the rate of about two dozen a day-including a daily five or six from the Foederatae Americae Civitates...
...guest star. It also commissioned Broadway-famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille to do a new number, Harvest According, and got its own ballet master, Edward Caton, to whip up another, Triptych. It was again scheduling an "American Composers Night," when Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Virgil Thomson would conduct their own ballets...
...Detroit Tiger Pitcher Virgil Trucks (5-15), his second no-hit, no-run game of the season, over the league-leading New York Yankees, 1-0, after only three Yankees reached first base, two on errors, one on a walk; in New York...
...larynx-cracking roles as the lead in Wozzeck and Rabbi Azrael in The Dybbuk; last season he gave more concerts with orchestra than any other U.S. baritone. Last week, at a time when most hard-working men were snoozing in vacation hammocks, Mack Harrell was still at it: singing Virgil Thomson's intricate new Five Songs of William Blake at Aspen...
Delayed Reaction. In Van Nuys, Calif., Ironworker Elba Virgil Norton, 32, failed to convince police, who arrested him for drunken driving, when he insisted: "I am not drunk. I'm just still shaking from the earthquake...