Word: virtuous
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...York City Opera at Lincoln Center. Grey starred in the first American production of Silverlake, an allegorical opera with music by Kurt Weill, originally produced in Germany in 1933, the place and period of Grey's enormously successful Cabaret. Silverlake's theme, the venal rich vs. the virtuous poor, was so politically powerful in 1933 that Nazi storm troopers broke up performances. New York critics were not that harsh, but some deemed the libretto dated and the music not worth Weill. Still, uptown was heady for Grey. In lieu of Broadway's traditional "break a leg" opening...
Some Westerners claim the ancient moral code of Islam, as practiced by the Amirs, rolls a boulder in the path of social progress and the rights of women. This is a vile allegation? Afghan women boast a rich and virtuous history. As long as there have been men in Afghanistan, there have been women. Of course, habiting with womenfolk is not always a blessed mixing. The illustrious and voluminous poet Khushal Khan Khattack expressed this love-hate relationship best in the 17th century...
...fame and fortune he has goofy romantic collisions with a couple of formidable and very amusing ladies, a mean, mean carnival motorcyclist (Catlin Adams), who beats him up, and a virtuous cosmetologist (Bernadette Peters), who plays cornet solos to express her love. He makes and loses a great pile of money, and eventually is rescued from drunken bumdom by his black parents, who are now rich from the money he has been sending home. The rube role works fairly well when Martin remembers to play a harmless nitwit of the Jerry Lewis variety. But that really is not his kind...
Taking one more A.P. exam does not clearly prepare a student any more for sophomore standing, Herrnstein said. "We are not trying to discover whether someone is virtuous but whether he is a sophomore" he added
...patience is a virtue, Edward Zlin thought to himself, I am not a virtuous...