Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pace, but that is because most homes have gone up under deals made with lenders last year when money was abundant. These commitments are now beginning to expire, and builders can arrange only a trickle of new ones. "It's like a time bomb," says Builder Vincent Amore of Pittsburgh...
...week, at the 19-year-old Jacob Riis public-housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Lady Bird Johnson dedicated a new three-acre open space that is likely to be a trend setter for cities across the nation. Financed by a $900,000 grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation, Riis Plaza offers not one but four rooms to replace a sterile, downtrodden mall...
Flippant Victorians parodied his name as Weirdsley Daubery or Awfly Weirdly. For the art of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, whose sinuous draftsmanship fluttered through the pages of the 1890s farthest-out books, was the scandalous titillation of his day. He seemed to have dipped his pen in laudanum and night shade; his dark silhouettes fairly rippled with overtressed vixens, leering harle quins and glinting grotesques...
Fortunately, Heart Surgeon Earle B. Kay had a third technique ready to try. At St. Vincent Charity Hospital he had recently set up a bank of human heart valves removed from accident victims and waiting to be used in an ingenious manner developed by his associate, Dr. Akio Suzuki. Because mitral valves have proved unsatisfactory for transplants, Dr. Kay selected an aortic valve from the bank, turned it upside down so that it would permit blood flow in the proper direction, and stitched it in place. There was little danger of transplant rejection, because heart-valve tissue has a negligible...
...legend of Vincent Scully's falling off the platform in the midst of a passionate lecture was well established when I was at Yale. It went something like this: Mr. Scully was lecturing on Greek art, on the Feminine God of Minoan Crete, and while "entranced," fell off the platform into the lap of a beautifully endowed female in the front row. He leaped up, ringingly proclaiming, "Into the arms of the Mother Goddess!" and then went on with renewed articulateness...