Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of openness to the world. But Paul's aperturismo would not be John's. Angelo Roncalli was a warm and intuitive man, with a fatherly love of men rather than ideas. The new Pope, says one Spanish Catholic layman who has worked with him, "is a Gothic priest not only in physical appearance but in spiritual formation. He has a subtle intelligence and a strong hand." Subtle, strong-handed Pope Paul VI will unquestionably differ from John in his stand on the great questions that face his church...
This might have been the reaction anywhere, but it was predictable in the particular community where Play opened, the ancient Danube town of Ulm, where the municipal theater rivals the famed Gothic cathedral as a source of civic pride. Most German cities and towns think of their municipal theaters as U.S. cities regard their libraries-a permanent and serious public responsibility. There are 130 in West Germany. Audiences attend them with solemn zeal for Kultur, a turn of mind that ignores entertainment for the sake of education. The result is a theater unique in the world...
...easy. Christianity "will have to 'travel light.' Christian institutions, ministries, images, effects must be studied: Which are very important? Which are accidental and can be left behind?" In Marty's view, the accidentals include many of the most apparent artifacts of American religion: the expensive Gothic church built for community prestige, the comfortable words of moralistic sermons, the check to a charity that substitutes for personal engagement with modern problems...
...says Rudolph. "It's a matter of significant form. There is something in a human being which demands that we sense the support and the supported-even though it may be sheathed with other materials, and decorated. Look at the difference between these bland cosmetic boxes and a Gothic cathedral, where every last rib and column is structural...
...Bulfinch, Harvard erected no important buildings until the late 19th century, a time of professional architects and gaudy edifices. Among the most prominent extravaganzas of this time were Matthews, Weld, and Grays in the Yard and Claverly and Randolph on the Gold Coast. The excesses of these combinations of Gothic and Jacobean design, if unpleasant to see, are reminiscent...