Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat of inspiration, Vincent Van-Gogh could put in a straight eleven-hour stretch before his easel, then sit down and write: "These colors give me extraordinary exaltation. I have no thought of fatigue; I shall do another picture this very night, and I shall bring it off. I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful; I am not conscious of myself any more, and the pictures come to me as in a dream...
Died. Archbishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, 75, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., who as a young rector in Oregon was named chairman of the state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy...
...things. Of the '20s: "Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' . . . We all said, 'Whee! We're lost.' " Of her own verse: "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss [Edna St. Vincent] Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damn good. Let's face it, honey, my verse is terribly dated." Of the difference between wit and wisecracking: "Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words." Of being rich: "I hate almost all rich...
...Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Stephen Vincent Benet...
...anthology is already a runaway bestseller-an astounding fact, since publishers traditionally expect prestige rather than profits from first-rate scientific books. Prodded by a $100,000 advertising campaign, the public has almost bought out the first printing of 100,000 at the prepublication price of $14.95. (Norman Vincent Peale's bestselling The Power of Positive Thinking had an advance sale...