Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of the Yard, the ton-and-a-quarter iron monster suspended in the neo-gothic tower of Memorial Hall counts off the hours all day long. Like the bells of St. Paul's, it is operated by heavy weights which slide down the inside of the tower and turn the clock. The most venerable college bell now in use, it was presented by the alumni shortly before the turn of the century...
Lafayette County, where William Faulkner lives, it has become, in the novels of this most powerful of present-day American novelists, a symbolic place suggesting the diseased condition of the South and the entire modern world. In fiercely Gothic melodramas Faulkner has spun out his cobwebby legend of the South. Intruder in the Dust is the latest installment of that legend...
...undergraduate boards that run the News had long yearned for a printing plant of their own. The cost was always too high. Since 1932, the editors have had their own Gothic quarters, the Briton Hadden Memorial Building,† but the printing has been done on contract, in a shop a mile and a half away. Now, in the "heelers' room," where young Yalemen compete for places on the board, the Daily News (circ. 3,000) has its own offset press and folder, with three new Vari-Typers down the hall. It can print more pictures and is boosting...
Last week in the bishop's palace (now a municipal museum), some of Limoges' ancient pride was reassembled. In these enamels of the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries, the intricate colored plaques, chalices and crucifixes recalled Byzantine mosaics and Gothic stained glass. But the enamels had one element those two mediums lacked-a quality of much-in-little. That quality, which appealed strongly to the medieval mind, had made Limoges enamels sought after by men of the Chateaux and men of the Church...
...Gothic buildings are often fine, yet that does not dictate that all new buildings be Gothic," wrote Lescaze. "How curious that men who admire Chartres Cathedral should still fail to understand Chartres' great lesson-with one of its towers Romanesque, the other Gothic; one built 400 years after the first but not as a Romanesque copy of the first-namely, that architecture can only be of its time...