Word: virgines
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...schedule, a purpose. I've always been an ambitious and driving person." He looked across the table at his wife. "Rosalynn and I haven't had a vacation since our honeymoon." Then he said they will spend the next two weeks at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
That California has come to embody such a vision of boundlessness is a little strange, since the dream of California is as much the dream of disappointment as of hope?the dream of arriving at virgin territory, of messing it up, and having gone as far as one can go, of having nowhere to turn but back. As Kevin Starr pointed out in his Americans and the California Dream, California has always stood for something mystical in American life; it has not suffered the tragic historical burdens of the East and South, and it has seemed determined to make itself...
...devout Roman Catholic who rarely misses morning Mass. A wood-and-silver crucifix is prominently displayed wherever he speaks. On his left lapel he always wears a badge depicting the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the revered symbol of Polish nationalism. He wrote a widely reproduced prayer that begins, "Virgin Mary, I come to you in the total modesty of my heart...
That was four years ago, and those Wyoming "coal fields" are still virgin grassland. Last week eleven of the 13 men involved in promoting the deal appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston for arraignment on charges that they fraudulently induced investors to take the write-offs. The Government also charges that the deductions were in fact illegal...
They met on a cold, damp Venetian morning, the wild ducks flying overhead. The hunter was 49, married, famous. The girl was 18, a dark Leonardesque virgin. "I love you more than the moon and the sky," he would later write her. "Daughter, how complicated can life be?" Very, she would answer: "I tried to remain on the razor's edge, because had I asked, you would have thrown yourself from a wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some...