Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have in mind. The little town itself boasts 3,171 inhabitants. Only a two-minute walk from grazing cows and wheat fields, it has four cafés, none of which will ever make the pages of Michelin. Chièvres' chief offerings are a 16th century Gothic chapel and a brewery...
Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...
John Barth, college English teacher and a leading comic of the theater of black humor, now makes with his academic robes like Mephistopheles-or perhaps Batman. Out tumbles a gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex, leaping across great tracts of human history. Fascism, Communism, recent wars, revolutions and the East-West split are played back in surrealist style. Practically every philosophy is put in the pillory. Barth contrives to blaspheme against, and maybe illuminate, both Judaism and Christianity, as well as the central tenet of 20th century humanism-that all life can be accounted for in terms...
Charley Horse. As they deliberated, six foreign ministers of the Warsaw Pact nations-once known as Russia and its satellites-met in the gothic Spiridonovka Palace near the banks of the Moskva River. And what seemed to be on their minds? How to keep Rumania's nationalist-minded government from bolting, for one thing. Some sort of rapprochement with the West, for another. And what to tell Charles de Gaulle next week when he arrives in Moscow to talk about European unity...
...installed last week as coadjutor, chief troubleshooter and heir apparent of Barcelona's archbishop. Though Monsignor González is non-Catalán in a rabidly Catalán diocese, he very quickly won over his first congregation at Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral, shunning the tiresome platitudes that his audience was so accustomed to. "I promise you," Monsignor González said with feeling and warmth, "that I will learn Catalán to understand better and to be understood. I will love it-and you." It was a start...