Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic Mandel Hall, 2,000 heard totalitarianism doomed by Professors Maritain, Tawney and Charles H. Mcllwain (Harvard) and President Hutchins. Although the learned gen tlemen, like lesser citizens, disagreed on the issue of war and peace they all agreed on the evils of totalitarianism...
Pope Pius XII sent Apostolic Delegate Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. President Roosevelt sent Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. Heading the gowned procession that marched across Edwards Parade and up the broad stone steps of Gothic Keating Hall was Professor Albert Feuillerat of the University of Paris (founded early 12th Century). Five Catholic bishops in traditional purple robes brought up the rear. Amid the faint rumble of trolley cars that reached the 70-acre campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic...
...orders of the State Department, they let fall these items of conditions inside Germany: ^ British bombing has been effective, not only in Hamburg but in Cologne. Thousands of women and children have been removed from Hamburg; its harbor has been almost cleared of shipping. In Cologne the great Gothic cathedral stands over a shambles. The center of the city is in ruins, and a terrified populace huddles nightly in a huge shelter under the public square...
...Gothic hall of the Wawel, Cracow's royal palace, was made into a Bierstube, and the apartment of Queen Jadwiga (1371-1399) became...
Last week Winston Churchill revealed one of his post-war aims. Answering a question in Parliament (whose meeting-place is now secret), he told how he expected to restore that Victorian-Gothic pincushion, the House of Commons, whose interior was gutted by seven Nazi bombs (TIME, May 19). Declared the Prime Minister: "I cannot conceive that anyone would wish to make the slightest structural alteration in the House of Commons other than perhaps some improvement in the system of ventilation or some minor readjustments for accommodation in the galleries, not affecting the size, shape and character of the building...