Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convincing power of a Dylan or a Jagger. This was the Boston Sound all over. It was rife with rotten social commentators and fourth-rate hip prophets. They played the silly game of Keeping Up with the San Francisco Groups. Instead of becoming a solid block in the great Gothic cathedral of Pop, they became the pale shadows of the stained glass windows of its heroes...
...numbers of participants proved another problem. Every morning at 9:30, a procession of 100 scholars and celebrities straggled out of the Princeton Inn, a long Georgian mansion sitting on the edge of a golf course, and wound its way through the Gothic arches of the Princeton yard to Whig Hall, the Princeton debating hall. There the group reassembled around chains of green-felted tables. The first day the tables were arranged in a horseshoe, which left some members separated by as much as 30 yards. The next day, the conference directors rearranged the setting trying to inject some sense...
...lived in Stiles College, a new house made of sombre, irregularly shaped stone towers that rise in fierce and jagged incongruity with the lacy elegance of the rest of Yale's gothic structures...
...Gothic Tastes. O'Neill the sometime melodramatist could not have improved upon his own beginnings. He was born on a grey, showery day in October 1888 in the Barrett House, a family hotel fittingly located on Broadway. (During his last illness in Boston 65 years later, he was to raise himself from a stupor and cry: "Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!") His father, James O'Neill, a famous romantic actor of the day. was giving something like his 1,400th performance in Monte Cristo, the play which for over a quarter...
Before he was out of diapers, then, there existed in full force the family cross-tensions that were to help make O'Neill the blackest of black Irishmen. A nanny with Gothic tastes in murder stories and a puritanical Catholic schooling-the nuns frowned on the theater- were hardly needed to complete the job. Before he was 15, young Eugene had cut himself off from his church, but not from his sense of damnation. "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell" was his new credo. He had become the most savage of insurrectionists: the rebel with...