Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? The games people play on Faculty Row make for ferocious fun in a movie as powerful as Edward Albee's Broadway hit, with Richard Burton as a long-suffering history prof, Elizabeth Taylor as his untamed shrew...
Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She and her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
...anything the Irish admire more than a first-class horseman, it's a chap with a tongue touched with blarney. And to have both in the same man, now there's a fine ambassador for the Americans to be sending. Of course, Raymond Guest, 58, noted Virginia horse breeder and financier, did warn them when he arrived last year that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding, properly named...
...Beatle debate continues, and teen-boppers all over the nation are coming to the rescue of their sacred quartet. The generational war has begun, and Virginia S. Daniels of 36 Acorn St., Malden, is circulating a petition in defense of John Lennon's remark that the Beatles are more popular than, Jesus, Miss Daniels has received a number of Bibles from those who are concerned for her soul...
...Answer Is Power. As with the Biblical Jesus, who is descended from both the Divine and the House of David, Goat-Boy is given both mystical origin through WESCAC and natural origin from a breed of Toggenburger goats on the campus animal farm. His mother, Virginia R. Hector, the chancellor's chaste daughter who works in the WESCAC programming room, falls into a trance before the machine and somehow is delivered of the goat-child. He is marked by a pair of horns. The goatherd, a disgraced Moishian (Jewish) professor, is cleared of suspicion...