Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four colleges operated by this board are City (men), Hunter (women), Brooklyn and Queens (co-educational). Each in turn is run by a president and an administrative committee of board members. City has a group of Gothic buildings on Washington Heights and a 16-story business school downtown. Hunter is scattered among its main centre at 68th St. and Lexington Ave., a midtown office building and a new campus next to a reservoir at the farthest limits of The Bronx. Brooklyn has just moved out of five rented, jampacked office buildings around Borough Hall. Queens starts in a group...
...abstract music can arouse a person emotionally, then abstract renditions of light and shade can achieve the same effect. He says frankly that these are but visual experiments, yet, his reactions to Handel's music, for one, set on paper as the essence of great, soaring flames beneath Gothic arches, succeed in conveying some kind of emotional stimulus to the onlooker...
Director of the Museum since 1927 has been Blake-More Godwin, a tweedy executive who came to Toledo as curator in 1916 and personally designed the Museum's Gothic Hall. Greying Mr. Godwin has been able to adhere with exemplary firmness to a policy of never accepting a bequest with any strings attached to it, never accepting any more of a private collection than he wants, and buying "only the best of its kind whether we like it personally or not." By this standard Founder Libbey began and Mr. Godwin has continued to amass one of the best- balanced...
Salamanca. The Franco dictatorship was proclaimed at the Gothic walled city of Burgos on July 23, 1936. Since then the Caudillo has moved his headquarters and the military and diplomatic bureaus of his government about 180 miles southwest to golden Salamanca. Salamanca is only 100 miles from Madrid with excellent highway communications to Avila, advance base for the Madrid front, and has direct rail connections with Portugal, a useful back door for German advisers who wish to avoid passing through France. Into this city whose normal population is less than 25,000, over 50,000 people have been crowded...
...distinctly American-skyscraper building- John Russell Pope took little interest. Neither was he affected by the style variously called Functionalism, Modernism. Internationalism, whose father was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose grandfather was Louis Sullivan. While that style was coming of age in the last decade, Architect Pope made Yale Neo-Gothic, Dartmouth Neo-Georgian, designed the grandiose mass of the Archives Building in Washington, adapted Rome's Pantheon for the Mellon gallery and again for the proposed Jefferson Memorial (TIME, April...