Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dancer in Darkness, by David Stacton. In this neo-Gothic retelling, an old and bloody tale-best known in John Webster's 16th century play, The Duchess of Malfi-becomes a great horror story...
...prose of David Stacton is like that of no other writer. It suggests a corridor in a dark Gothic tower, ill-lit by tapers, at one end of which a gong sounds incessantly. Stacton's gong clashes are malevolent aphorisms, asides spoken to Nemesis, hard little explanations of motive...
...Henry Schwarz's "Gothic Man in an Atomic Age," a review of paintings by Robert Rutman and Jack Wickline at the Dumbarton Gallery, The Weekly Review, October...
...besides, Picasso has all the loot. He should disperse his money to struggling young artists. Give his all for art. Museums are dead. And they are closed most of the time. They waste their "dough" on restorations. Why should anything be restored? The artist is helpless - "a Gothic man in the Atomic Age." The art academy is an evil institution. Boston is a terrible place, full of academic critics...
Silence Will Speak. Wescott describes the late Baroness Blixen-Finecke, better known as Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales), as she seemed when she visited New York four years ago- already at death's door, already moth-frail like "a fever-wasted child; but her eyes as lively as the diamonds in her ears. She really did no more than haunt the dinner table." No writer could ask for a better epitaph than Wescott's use of a line from one of her own characters: "Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal...