Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buildings have been built over so many protests. Esthetes argued that it would ruin the view down Park Avenue (it does). Commuters were fearful that it would overtax already swarming Grand Central Station. Argued Yale Professor Vincent Scully: "Except for brute expediency, it shouldn't be there at all." It was suggested that the site be used for a park instead. Wolfson agreed, but added conclusively: ''Who can afford to dedicate a $20 million plot to a park...
...program for Harvard Medicine passed the halfway mark toward its goal of $58 million, reaching a total of $29.4 million in gifts and pledges at the end of 1962. Perhaps the single most encouraging gift of the year was a completely unrestricted gift of $1.1 million by the Vincent Astor Foundation. A strong effort must now be made to bring it to a successful conclusion...
...coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and Rudolf Friml. Among his hits: "One Alone," Roberta's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." and Rose Marie's "Indian Love Call...
...Raven. Once upon a midnight dreary, while he ponders, weak and weary, the hero (Vincent Price) of this picture hears a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at his chamber door. "Surely," says he, "surely that is something at my window lattice." Open then he flings the shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels...
...like. We'll buy the lot," said the one in the short sports coat. The third man, in a dark suit, scribbled checks. The process took about an hour, cost $5,000, and added another 100 paintings, sketches and etchings to the stockpile of something called the Vincent Price Collection...