Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's library, in the words of its librarian, Julian P. Boyd, is "Gothic on the outside and modernistic on the in side." To Modern Architect William Lescaze that seemed rather like dressing a professor in a suit of armor. Last week he wrote the New York Times an angry letter about...
Harvard's $2,500,000 new Lament Library, now under construction, is a compromise-a kind of midway modern, which is streamlined enough to shock Cantabrigian purists (though the Harvard Yard is already a pleasant grabbag of Georgian, Greek Revival, Victorian and nondescript). Princeton, with its huge neo-Gothic halls already built, had, like Miami, gone all out for uniformity, but in the opposite direction. Its new $6,000,000 library was carefully designed to "fit in" on the campus...
...reported that "Not one of them had a kind word to say for their Alma Mater's newest building. How could they? They had been taught to strive for honest architectural solutions and yet at the same time their own university had been building a library with a Gothic mask. Talking to them I had the feeling that Princeton's library may well turn out to be the last example of our colleges' long devotion to a mistaken loyalty . . . to the outside appearance...
...memorial is a Gothic community center built by Mrs. Jones in 1925. It once housed an Esperanto school, still contains an art gallery and 8,000 books. Lithopolitans go there for movies and organ concerts. Last week the memorial had also become an educational cornucopia...
...gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge seems a more imaginative creation 20 years after publication; but he also seems as unreal as the specters who haunted the castles of Gothic novelists...