Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helped to restore Poblet over the past two years, employing a craft knowledge inherited from Gothic times, which persists in Spain as nowhere else. Screens and iron chandeliers had come from Ramon Martí's hands. But it was with a crucifix for a Poblet chapel that Martí, a "mute, inglorious Milton" if there ever was one, had shown himself a son and proper heir of the early Gothic tradition at its most triumphant...
...Roman Catholic intellectual life in Germany, with an almost equally strong attraction for many Protestants. Just out of the hospital (where he underwent surgery for an ailment described only as neuralgia), Monsignor Romano Guardini again presided over his "Laboratory of Ideas," with its long refectory table, its delicate Gothic Madonna standing against red velvet, its record collection, and its thousands of books, including three shelves of his own writings on everything from theology to movies...
Confined by his budget to black-and-white film, he exploits the expressive possibilities of light perhaps more fully than any director alive. And he uses sound-and silence-with the skill and sensitivity of a composer. With subtle verve and dazzling control, he can alternate dreamy love with Gothic horror or wonderfully bawdy hilarity. He is equally at home with Wildean wit and low Shakespearean vaudeville. Like a gadfly, Bergman buzzes about his favorite target: the normal, healthy, inadequate male. ("Grown men are so rare," one of his women says sweetly to her husband, "that we pick the child...
Rudolph's first major building was the $3,000,000 arts center for Wellesley College, completed in 1958. Trying to harmonize his building with the existing collegiate Gothic of the campus, Rudolph adapted the 15-ft. bay spaces and red brick of the older buildings, used an enameled sun screen to provide a functional equivalent to the richness of neo-Gothic stone tracery...
...Victorian Gothic corridors of London's Royal Courts of Justice last week, the well-dressed crowd pushed, shoved, and asked attendants: "Which way to the duchess? Which way to the countess?'' Of two aristocratic divorce cases being heard at the same time, many of the crowd were most interested in the 46-year-old Countess of Shrewsbury, whose husband the earl had sued her-and who in turn had sued her husband-for divorce on grounds of adultery. The scandal had fed the tabloids for weeks, but the real jolt in the case turned...