Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a great-event atmosphere around the neo-Gothic Palace of Westminster. Londoners and provincial visitors gathered with tense faces around Parliament Square. Britons, to whom queueing has become second nature, waited in a long line for the few public seats available in the House of Commons' gallery...
...white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism of the suppression of the harp in Ulster, and the occult significance of Gothic pinnacles and top-hats at Eton." Hitler himself sometimes rose from his "modest supper of vegetable pie and distilled water to prance upon the table and identify himself with the great conquerors of the past...
...Gothic transept, Sculptor Henry Moore's outsize figure of the Madonna & Child sat tranquil and serene. At the other hung Painter Graham Sutherland's agonized Christ on the Cross, bearing the sins and degradation of the world. Between them, in the center aisle, stood full-throated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, singing Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner. The audience, warned not to applaud in the church, sat in pent-up enthusiasm which mounted from song to song, until at last, when Flagstad made her final bow, some 20 of her listeners jumped to their feet and silently bowed...
...England, the Old had the edge. A 1940 air raid left 14th Century Coventry Cathedral a Gothic shell; in 1944, while bombs rained on England, a dispute started raging on how Coventry should be rebuilt. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 67, a Roman Catholic, and one of England's foremost ecclesiastical architects, readapted a design which the Church of England had used but forgotten so long that it seemed new: a cruciform cathedral with the high altar at the center of the cross. This design provided sections of the cathedral where non-Anglicans could worship by themselves. Most of England...
...commission appointed by Coventry's Bishop Neville Vincent Gorton announced this week what they had found to be the popular feeling: Coventry should be rebuilt in the English Gothic form with a traditional stone nave vault and plenty of stained glass. Since the job will take years, the architect should be young. Above all, added the commission, the new cathedral "should not be in violent contrast...