Word: gothic
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...including a psychiatrist, a Mexican-American writer, and Oakland Chief of Police Charles Gain, whom the Panthers scarcely view with academic detachment. For all that, Cleaver's appointment to speak produced an incendiary reaction. Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...
...turgid. Weary of the 40,000-word weekly grind, Dugger turned to more leisurely writing, including a soon-to-be-published book about Lyndon Johnson. His most gifted cronies took off in other literary directions. Robert Sherrill baited the occupant of the White House with The Accidental President and Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward Home and became the youngest editor in Harper's century-long history. Its liveliest writers gone...
...lovers have had to admire them by reputation and reproduction. To see them firsthand required a trip to Italy. Before oil painting was imported from Northern Europe and the artist's vision shrank to the size of canvases that could be moved from wall to wall, the greatest Gothic and Renaissance artists decorated entire cathedrals, cloisters and chapels with floor-to-ceiling murals illustrating religious legend with robust humanistic imagery. Because these pageants were done a fresco-painted onto the wall while its plaster was still fresh-they became part of the fabric of the building and could...
Outer Dark is a morality tale that has elements of a Southern-Gothic horror story. Its main characters are involved in a quest. A newborn child, the product of an incestuous affair between a backwoods brother and sister, is abandoned by the brother and found by a passing tinker. The sister sets out on a long search for the child, and the brother obsessively pursues her, while both suffer physical and spiritual deprivations...
...succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed & Ward). When he was nine, his family moved to Torresdale, Pa., a town not unlike the setting for Pennsylvania Gothic. Finding the literary atmosphere at home oppressive," he plunged passionately into sports. The only trouble was that in lonely Torresdale, ''there was no one to play with. I became perhaps the outstanding solitary baseball player of my generation." When he was 14, a polio attack "interrupted that unpromising...