Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countless commissions and boards have produced plans to beautify Ottawa, if not make it bigger. The net result: a few extra patches of public lawn, a few monuments, and Confederation Square, which has so complicated downtown traffic that Ottawans themselves call it Confusion Square. Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained frowzy, a city where trains run through the center of town and chuff smoke into the foyer of the best hotel...
...Washington, Administration officials spoke in tones of unmistakable concern. At a press conference in the State Department's second-floor auditorium, a sober Secretary of State told newsmen that the situation was "very, very serious." Next night, before the Federal Council of Churches in the echoing Gothic nave of Washington's great unfinished cathedral, the Secretary repeated his warnings...
Most of the rabbis of these Reform congregations have been trained at Hebrew Union College, which Dr. Wise started in Cincinnati in 1875. Last week, on the Tudor Gothic campus of Hebrew Union, 1,000 leaders of Reform Judaism met to celebrate the inauguration of the college's fourth president, Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 47. Handsome, dark-eyed Nelson Glueck (rhymes with click) became a rabbi at 23, but he is better known as one of the world's foremost archeologists. He spent ten of the last 15 years in Palestine, where he discovered and mapped 1,000 biblical...
...money going to? Everything was up: even the frogs used in biology laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
...Gothic Fogs. If only because Juenger had to engage in some mystification to confound the censors, there is no direct correspondence between actual events in Europe and the development of his novel. What he does, however, is to recreate with great skill the emotional atmospheres of totalitarian terror. The pastoral scene in which the brothers explore the meanings of nature & man is transformed into a fearful and terrifying "battleground full of ominous Gothic effects-miasmal fogs that confuse the Chief Ranger's victims, weird battles between dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising...