Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist government an exhibition of 127 historic objects that display the nation's artistic heritage. The exhibition of treasures from Poland, which is currently at Chicago's Art Institute and will travel next to Philadelphia and Ottawa, makes it clear that the Polish were as responsive to Gothic and Renaissance styles as the rest of Europe...
Last week the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York, announced that the diocese was scrapping the ambitious Gothic plan drawn up in 1911 by Architect Ralph Adams Cram. He in turn had drastically revised the original Byzantine-cum-Romanesque church whose cornerstone was laid in 1892. Instead, the trustees of the diocese have approved a more modest program for completion submitted by the firm of Adams & Woodbridge. In place of the spire-topped 500-ft. Gothic tower that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete...
When New York City last week declared Trinity Church a municipal landmark, it honored something more than an esthetically pleasing place of worship. A grimy, spire-topped Gothic church overshadowed by Wall Street skyscrapers, it is an island of pastoral calm amidst the marketplace. Its outdoor benches are often crowded with secretaries and sightseers, and its cemetery is a favorite lovers' rendezvous. More than that, though, Trinity Church is a powerful, still-active force in U.S. ecclesiastical history. It is the largest parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church, with 3,900 congregants. It is also the wealthiest, with...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A brilliant gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex in which a goat (or is it a boy?) appears as the Messiah of a new religion...
...assistant's wife, the kiddies express themselves by plotting blackmail and even murder, and a member of the staff releases inhibitions by decapitating cats. Masters too often manufactures sensations instead of making sense, but he can summon remarkable talents for projecting character and transmitting an atmosphere of educational gothic...