Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years he contented himself with the Gothic cathedrals, Connecticut farmhouses and old doorways that keep his colleagues busy, but for the past three years his needle has done nothing but War scenes. Three weeks ago Manhattan's Keppel Galleries held an exhibition of his recent work, published a little pamphlet reprinting a few of them along with the first essay he has ever written. Its conclusion : "It is said that war is human nature- that we always have had wars and always will-I do not believe it. Something can be done about it. God knows it is human...
...Marx financially, arranged for the publication of his work, kept an Irish mistress, studied military strategy in preparation for the World Revolution. Reading constantly, Engels learned "to stutter in 20 languages," learned Persian in three weeks, once wrote that he was going to take a fortnight off to master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon. Less ambitious, Marx merely studied Russian, Serbian, Slavic. In one period when he could not work, the scholar read for recreation two volumes on physiology, Kolliker's Histology, Spurzheim's The Anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System, Schwann & Schleiden...
Most concrete expression of Mr. Rockefeller's unsectarian liberalism is Manhattan's large, Gothic Riverside Church, a place of worship for "all the disciples of Jesus," which he built for $4,000,000 and in which he installed Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. No less monumental was the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, to which Mr. Rockefeller was the largest contributor (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932 et seq.). That this survey, which found great need of interdenominational cooperation in foreign missions, was received "unenthusiastically" by the Northern Baptist Convention, its onetime President Charles Oscar Johnson was quick...
...Area (Far West) where he handled with minimum red tape more CCCampers than there were soldiers in the U. S. Army (116,000). General Craig of St. Joseph, Mo. and Mrs. Craig of Berkeley, Calif, might have posed for the purposeful pair in Artist Grant Wood's American Gothic. The Army could not expect the amount of flair from spectacled 60-year-old Chief-of-Staff Craig that it witnessed during the extraordinary term of extraordinary Chief-of-Staff MacArthur. But the Army knew it had a leader who would carry on with minimum nonsense, get things done...
Christopher Morley, well known essayist and novelist, waxed a bit sarcastic in the latest number of the Saturday Review in describing the effect of the new Yale College buildings, "where architects have gone whoopsdearie in Gothic. The new Yale needs a lot of walking on to give it character. ...The effect, however, is not as depressing as that endless acreage of synthetic Georgian at Harvard...