Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions. Why should Chile continue to receive U.S. supplies, as she did? Propaganda even spread that she was getting more than her share. Was this the way countries which had followed the U.S. foreign policy were to be rewarded? So last week Under Secretary of State Welles, architect of the Good Neighbor policy, lighted up with a hard, angry glow...
...Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist, little-heeded prophet of a return to the religious and political patterns of the Middle Ages, death came in the fullness of faith last week (in Boston...
...little eloquent evangelist, who produced big eloquent structures, Architect Cram lived scarcely more than bodily in the 20th Century. His intense spiritual life was in "the 13th, greatest of centuries," when the faith of a united Christendom bloomed in stone cathedrals from the hard soil of feudal Europe. More than any other one person Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival in U.S. architecture...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at West Point and Princeton University, Pittsburgh's $4,000,000 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location -wealthy, hoity-toity Park Avenue...
Died. Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist; in Boston...