Word: vergil
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...this summer for high school faculty members. The program offered no formal academic credits but did pay teachers up to $2,125 for six weeks while they went back to college for the luxury of studying a great book or two, and all the right stuff: Plato, Thucydides, Homer, Vergil, Chaucer, Alexis de Tocqueville, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann...
...Vergil who first guided Calvi through the descending circles of these and other transactions was Michele Sindona. A onetime Italian financier and Vatican financial adviser, he is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of New York's Franklin National Bank (see box). Sindona became connected with the Vatican in the mid-1960s and later helped Pope Paul VI divest the church of its holdings in several large companies...
...Gilles. "My legs are paralyzed," he declares in his first letter, "but my heart is free and I know how to love." And so Louise determines to create another life, a love life, for her brother: she writes to him, as "Beatrice Deschamps," and Gilles becomes her maimed, ardent Vergil. The question is whether she will lead him to paradise or purgatory...
...unprecedented spree of hyperbole, but the newspapers called Lindbergh's landing "The biggest news story since the crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after all, started out chronicling heroes. Homer and Vergil were only carrying on a tradition that started with cave paintings when they put the Odyssey and Iliad to verse. Praises of exceptional men were to be sung. News today may be little more than bookkeeping, closer to ledger accounting than anything else. But even now we respond, almost intuitively...
...magic and spectacle, handled most ingeniously (and without the 140-man stage crew that Charles Kean needed in 1857). When Miranda is put to sleep, she slumbers levitated a couple of feet above ground. The instantaneous appearance and disappearance of the banquet (borrowed from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid) is truly miraculous, as are the periodic flashes of St. Elmo's fire all over the place...