Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campus of the university at Durham, N. C., which "Buck" Duke endowed with his name and fortune, students gazed disapprovingly last week at a huge, empty pedestal, set squarely in front of Duke's $1,000,000 Gothic Chapel. The pedestal will be capped, next Commencement, with the Duke statue. Last month the Archive, Duke's literary magazine, placed the statue in its Hall of Infamy "because it is in extremely bad taste, because the cigar in his hand is the keynote to its vulgarity, because it will be an object of ridicule...
With that off his chest, President Few could take time last week to preen himself on a stroke both neighborly and shrewd. Only twelve miles of rolling red hills and scrubby pines separate the Gothic halls of Duke from the Georgian Colonial buildings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
...First, in Wall Street. Its congregation quarreled, among other things, over the new-fangled hymns of Isaac Watts. So the anti-Watts faction set up their own church in Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is famed for its sloping auditorium, its fine acoustics...
Married. Grant Wood, Iowa artist (American Gothic, Dinner For Threshers -TIME, Dec. 24); and Mrs. Sara Sherman Maxon, music teacher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where both grew up; in Minneapolis...
Chancellor Bowman met the three pedagogs in the University Club. First thing he did was to take them outdoors and point to a beautiful Gothic skyscraper rising through the city's smoke from the University campus. That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build...