Word: georgians
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...architecture of Yale University has long been an enormous clutter of poorly integrated styles and hideous imitations, where Gothic halls are topped by Georgian towers, smoke-stacks disguised as medieval spires, and streets lined with Greek, Italian, Byzantine, and ancient Egyptian fakery. In recent years, however, Yale has begun what its enthusiasts consider a revolution in college building...
...execution of the college plan in New Haven was begun shortly after the house system was instituted in Cambridge. The Yale colleges were constructed in a monolithic, pseudo-Gothic style, even less original than Harvard's neo-Georgian style. The Gothic structures were added to a sizeable collection of buildings which represented virtually every major style in the last five centuries of Western architecture. Saarinen's first and most formidable challenge was to create a design which would be compatible with the surrounding environment, an architectural landscape unimagined in even the weirdest conjectures of the most perverted student of design...
...Moiseyev Company in 1958 (and again in 1961), the Beryozka Company in late 1958, the Bolshoi Ballet in 1959, the Georgian State Company in 1960, the Leningrad Kirov Ballet...
...poet greeted him with a cool and quizzical hello. But that first interview lasted until 4 o'clock in the morning, beginning in the living room-study of the poet's two-room flat, and going on in the kitchen over caviar, salmon, cheese and red Georgian wine...
...winding sheet of luminous Jamesian language. Nothing is clear; anything is possible; evil like a serpent glides unseen beneath each gliding sentence. In the film, necessarily, the spectral prose is replaced by spooky images and scary noises. Some of them are eerily effective: Sheffield Park, the gorgeously rotting old Georgian mansion in which the film was mostly made, is a demon's dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried...