Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showplace of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. is Yaddo, 500-acre estate of the late Banker Spencer Trask and his poet wife, Katrina. For twelve years Yaddo's three-story stone, Victorian-Gothic mansion has been a free, luxurious refuge for writers, painters, musicians, critics, all carefully selected, and carefully mother-superiored by a high-minded, hieratic lady named, Elizabeth Ames. Yaddo has also been, on & off during the past eight years, a place where serious U. S. composers could gather to play, hear, discuss their own music. As such it is valuable, for many composers, especially young ones...
There was John Fiske, who knew all the sciences and half-a-dozen languages before he entered Harvard where he added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac...
...John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with a cathedral-building itch, scratched up some $15,000,000, transformed his Romanesque stub into a soaring Gothic pile. Bishop Manning will be remembered as a cathedral builder. He may also be remembered as a bishop who had little luck with his deans...
...Episcopalians' Forward Movement, may well make the cathedral's work measure up to the grandeur of its fabric. In twelve years he swelled the congregation of small St. Andrew's Church, Kansas City, from 90 to 1,100, housed in a fine new, debt-free Gothic church. His Low-Church parish in Houston feared he might be too High-Church when he went there in 1934. But friendly, straightforward Dr. De Wolfe soon had them genuflecting and liking it. Says he: "I'm not interested in high or low churchmanship but deep churchmanship...
...Century Fox staged a special snap preview of "Johnny Apollo" some seven weeks ago in Ossining, New York. They picked Ossining because the hero, to say nothing of most of the semi-minor characters, resides during the last forty-five minutes of the movie in a certain notorious neo-Gothic villa of that town. They invited the reviewers of thirty college newspapers to serve as an audience because the same hero spends the first three minutes in college and thereby creates what Mr. Zanuck-presumably calls "a college angle." Mr. Zanuck's angle, to use a contemporary idiom, is none...