Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan first produced the central quadrangle, built in Gothic style, with its maze of passageways and courtyards and its myriad of minute designs in stone, over which reigns the Harkness Memorial Tower. Here we find a peculiar liberal trend, for the Tower sexton mounts thrice daily to sound the chimes, not at the hours ordinarily prescribed for the sounding of chimes, but at noon, 6, and 10 o'clock. Those accustomed to the bedlam let loose over Cambridge every quarter hour, and sometimes at 20 minutes to the hour, might note this with approval...
...suicide had cheated the Nürnberg gallows; now fat Hermann's secret satellites were glamorizing his role of Nazi martyr by circulating a probably faked version of his dying "appeal to the German nation." The cleverly phrased document turned up everywhere - mimeographed, printed in the ancient Gothic lettering that Germans love, even as a wrapping for German meat rations. In it, Goring ostensibly invited his countrymen to sabotage the peace; justified bombings but weaseled on torture; said: "Try to forget some . . . things, but remember others. Above all remember that you are Germans . . . that you are the people...
...Victorian gothic, old Memorial Hall stead on the sacred precincts of the Delta, gathering dust and age, but with the exception of examinations NROTC classes, and an occasional performance in Sanders Theater it had seen its best days. It was a tradition but an obsolete structure in the University scene...
Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
...Saint Anthony," which Mayor Curley recently condemned as offensive to religious persons. The show contains some interesting interpretations by such painters as Abraham Rattner, Salvador Dali, Ivan Albright, and Dorothea Tanning; but only Max Ernst's prize-winning canvas captures the terror brought to the theme by the Gothic Masters...