Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vincent Persichetti's Bagatelles for Band, which began the evening, is an example of this ambivalence. The four movements, while containing interesting rhythmic devices and harmonic structures, were unsatisfying as individual entities and failed to form a coherent whole. Phrases caught the ear, but no meaning or emotion was conveyed. Canzona, by Julliard director Peter Mennin, was similarly unsatisfying...
...prosaic moniker alongside such inspired noms de dishabille as Gaza Stripp, Helen Bedd, and the ecclesiastical ecdysiast. Norma Vincent Peel...
...Romantic Women Poets: "Elinor Wylie was the most crystalline . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay the most powerful and most popular. One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers: if only there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes...
...Program for Harvard Medicine has received an unrestricted $1,100,000 grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation of New York. This grant brings the Program more than half-way toward its $58,000,000 goal...
...referendum day approached, the opposition hardened. Ex-President Vincent Auriol now openly accused De Gaulle of "usurpation" and of asking the nation to "legalize his coups d'etat." Economic Planner Etienne Hirsch blasted De Gaulle by asking if the man who wanted to be the "supreme guide" of France had "forgotten how this translates into Italian, Spanish or German"-il Duce, el Caudillo, der Fűhrer. Opposition posters quoted the words of the late Premier Georges Clemenceau: "The cemeteries are full of indispensable...