Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back room of Gioia's Corner Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard-not to scare away burglars, but to illuminate a 3-ft.-high statue of the Blessed Virgin. It is all part of the pleasant, unhurried flavor of life today on the Hill...
...areas of intense commercial development is yielding some of the largest inflation fortunes. Prime examples: land located along the proposed route of Atlanta's rapid transit system and near the mammoth Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. A Dallas real estate group recently sold for $45,000 a parcel of virgin land that it had bought only two months earlier for a mere $6,000. To a lesser extent, inflation also benefits the typical owner of a mortgaged home. Since the value of the dollars used to repay the debt is lessening, the mortgage is, in effect, becoming cheaper...
...deeply religious work conforming to the strictest theological orthodoxy. It is even more bizarre in light of the contrast between the Christianity of Memorial Church (as aided by the Choir) and the Catholicism of Claudio Monteverdi's Venice in 1610. Monteverdi's exuberant celebration of the festival of the Virgin Mary outrageously flaunts Puritan restraint...
Despite the distances of time and character, the University Choir gave an excellent performance of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers. The Vespers are made up of an introductory versicle, five psalms, a hymn especially for the Feast of the Virgin, and The Magnificat...
...best, Harvard is both the virgin and the dynamo--preserver of culture and factory of new ideas and invention. Still, one wonders if there are any virgins at Harvard; and factories do pollute. No belief in the value of the past and an absence of hope in the future characterize every part of Harvard. In attempting to avoid cynicism, Harvard students exalt form over content, and regard style as superior to substance. Lectures are largely empty expositions, gracefully delivered, laced with phrases from Romance languages, and embroidered with intellectual gossip. Students select courses on the basis of the celebrities...