Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better things than you?" he cried to the Viscianesi. "You have a reputation for never protesting. Are you going to let it be said that you also never build anything? Are things going to be built in the Alps but not around the place on Monte Vergine where the Virgin Mary appeared in 1597 to save Visciano from pestilence and hunger? Saint Francis, when he was building his monastery at La Verna, promised: 'He who gives me a stone will have reward for one stone-he who gives me two stones will have two stones' reward...
...royal pension, and married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher. By then he was one of the most mixed characters that ever walked the earth-a tempestuous rebel, a lover of kings, a bourgeois who could account for every sou he spent, a fanatical moralist, an insatiable sensualist. He came virgin to his marriage and apparently never strayed from his wife until, nine years later, his excessive demands so exhausted her that she shut her bedroom door against him. The virility of his poems and dramas was found equally exhausting by most of his public, and his friends urged...
...years at U.S.C., then discovered Composer George Antheil, who led him toward advanced composition along a path strewn with pungent maxims. (Sample: "Do you know the sound of the flute? It's not the silvery thing people talk about. Just remember this: a flute is a virgin...
...operatic favorites looms, Mrs. Peltz and her two assistants push back the jungle of operatic ignorance a bit farther. When something old but new, e.g., next season's La Périchole (Offenbach), never before performed by the Met, comes up, the possibility of doing some spadework in virgin soil goes to her head "like wine...
...brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also like to drive along the Izu Peninsula, with its tiny fishing villages and bubbling hot springs, visit Hakone for the best view of snow-capped Fujiyama, and stop at Toba, near Ago Bay, where they can see the world's biggest culture pearl operation and find...