Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white mansion she had known as the President's House. She had three sitting rooms, a drawing room, two maids, a cook, a chauffeur and two secretaries. Her new domain stretched out over 400 acres of rolling hills. From the air it looked like a series of Gothic cathedrals with all their spires neatly shorn away. It was a network of pathways that ran under archways, circled a lake, wound among gardens, and threaded through lawns. It was a place of leaded windows and tiny balconies. A mid-campus tower commanded...
...ashes, dust to dust." All this year the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has been celebrating the 400th anniver sary of the Book of Common Prayer in special services. Last week, in Manhat tan's huge French Gothic Cathedral...
...Luxembourg's somber, gothic Chamber of Deputies last week, defense ministers of the five Western Union ("Brussels Pact") nations met to make further plans for unified arms production and service supply. They decided...
...exhibition tells the story of a man who almost singlehanded broke the tradition of his time & place, taught Venetian art to loosen its stiff Byzantine and Gothic joints. In his Pietà with St. John, which shows Mary supporting the body of Jesus while the dazed John stares into the distance, Bellini brought the tightlipped, hot-house Byzantine virgins of earlier Venetian painting out into the clear sunlight of the Italian countryside...
...Hungary's neo-Gothic Parliament building the crowd cheered as Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi stalked in to open the session. He first walked around the red-plushed row of ministerial chairs to shake hands with each cabinet minister. One of the old familiar faces was missing -that of Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, wartime underground leader and once Hungary's dreaded Minister of the Interior. Since Rajk's name had headed the single list of candidates in his district, his election had seemed sure. When the rapporteur of the Mandate Credentials Committee omitted Rajk's name from...