1996 Vincent Scully

Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully was born to a modest family in New Haven, a city in which he remained his entire life. After graduating from high school at 15, he entered Yale University with a scholarship in 1936. At Yale, the lectures of Chauncey B. Tinker (1876-1963) caught his interest and he began graduate work in English. He quit after only one semester, citing a distain for the New Criticism that had gripped academic English...

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