Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vincent Persichetti's Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
DARLING OF THE DAY is another of this season's dead-as-the-dodo musicals. Weary of adulation, a famous painter assumes his deceased valet's identity and achieves happiness with a pneumatic widow. As the painter, Vincent Price acts like a berserk semaphore and sings in a mauve whisper. As the widow, Patricia Routledge performs with a joyous professional authority lacking in the score and the show...
...Democratic assembly. The legislative leaders handed the dispute back to Lindsay instead, on condition that he resume bargaining with the union. And at week's end the city and the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association agreed to submit the dispute to binding arbitration, with a Rockefeller aide, Vincent McDonnell, serving as arbitrator...
...Vincent J. Manno of Manno & Romano, the newspaper brokerage firm that brought the two publishers together, the transaction represented a "new horizon for the newspaper field." In the joint announcement made by the two companies, Newark News President Edward Scudder said that "although the News has never occupied a stronger position in its field than it does today, I am convinced that the vast resources and prestige of Time Inc. will contribute tremendously to its growth and service to its readers." Time Inc.'s plans for the News will be made public when the transaction is concluded...
...Gospel and a servant of man were inextricably interwoven. During the '20s, he was probably the nation's most popular radio preacher, and for eight years he was pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Marble Collegiate Church-a post now held by his friend and disciple, Norman Vincent Peale. Poling also served for a time as head of the J. C. Penney Foundation, which supported such charitable institutions as orphanages and homes for the aged. He also traveled widely through the world on behalf of Christian missions and relief services...