In people, we might thing of trustworthiness as a collection of four virtues.
No knight (or governess) from a romance novel has ever possessed such a collection of improbably paired virtues as did this paragon, who was handsome without being vain, virile yet tender, solid but never dull, and a tireless though unjealous protector: the ideal mate and perfect foil for a fragile monomaniac like Millay.
Here, Stuart Vevers, the executive creative director of Coach, reveals how the High Line changed his first collection, the virtues of radical transparency and where Felix the Cat fits in.
Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts primarily on virtues and vices.
An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais.
Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais.
The Scots were also familiar with the Duc de La Rochefoucauld's "Maximes," a wickedly funny collection of aphorisms that dissolved virtue in the acid of self-interest.
One operates strictly according to the founder's wishes, as long as the founder is around to crack the whip; the other sustains its program, including collections, by virtue of institutional inertia.
In our series, however, we saw abductor tendon stripping from both the anterolateral approach and the posterior approach, close to lateral pseudotumors with a dissimilar appearance to bursal fluid collections by virtue of thick irregular walls and mixed internal signal intensity surrounding the greater trochanter and stripping the abductor muscle tendons from their insertion.
"The Little Virtues," a collection of essays that range from a portrait of her friend, the poet Cesare Pavese, to a sendup of food in London (Ginzburg can be very, very funny), reads as if it were written by a steady hand holding a diamond to glass.
STEPHANIE BETIT first read "Atlas Shrugged," "The Fountainhead" and Ayn Rand's essay collection "The Virtue of Selfishness" in 2004.
