Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second only to the Metropolitan and the National Gallery among American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and its Japanese, Persian, and Indian collections are scarcely less impressive. The museum is also distinguished for Egyptian, Classical, and Gothic works, and for European painting, particularly Italian primitives, Turner and Blake watercolors, and French impressionists...
...class in businesslike silence or earnest conversation. In the 30's the school had a reputation for pacifism and radicalism; now its scholarship and its first-rate basketball teams are its chief glories. The main campus, on St. Nicholas Heights in upper Manhattan, has six be-gargoyled Gothic buildings; but its downtown branch at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue looks like any big Manhattan office building. Students who don't foregather at the nearby Automat are apt to be found across the street at the George Washington Hotel, which before the war always kept a ten-pound cheese...
Last week's 500 conference guests-including the present Baron Kenyon, 28, and his lady-temporarily doubled the town's population. They found a green and wooded campus with architecture ranging from the massive, crenelated Gothic of Old Kenyon, through degrees of Victorian adornment, to Gothic of the Age of Cram. But Kenyon is careful to keep its 19th Century ivy rustling. It is particularly proud of its young (42) president, who was only 33 when he got the job; of its flying field and its curricular course in practical aeronautics, soon to be resumed after a wartime...
...thoughtful Nürnberger suggested that it might be a kind of joke, wrote six pages of tight Gothic script on the philosophy of humor...
...Simon Elwes (pronounced El-wez), a young socialite painter who was visiting friends in Yorkshire, decided to have a look at the local ruin, Fountains Abbey. He expected to see a heap of charming and tedious rubble. He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which...