Word: gothic
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...Ultimate Things (BOOKS)-A review of a collection of short stories that belong among the finest examples of American gothic. But it becomes the story of the late Flannery O'Connor, who had the luck, the stubbornness, and the mystical quality of the Irish...
...Author O'Connor wrote exclusively of ultimate things: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, the old Adam and the new life. But she was a poet of region as well as religion, and in this new collection of nine stories, which belong among the finest examples of American Gothic, she celebrates in Southern guises he old violent dialogue of the demonic and the divine...
CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A medieval castle in the Ardennes is occupied by a decadent count, his child-wife, and a bumbling, boondoggling bunch of G.I.s who find themselves squarely in the path of the German thrust for Bastogne. Interweaving satire, tragedy and gothic mystery, Novelist Eastlake has created a small, surreal masterpiece...
...student University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon studies northern lights and the ionosphere by launching its own rockets at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The university has grown beyond its 2,600-acre campus, with Gothic greystone buildings, to acquire a 1,300-acre branch in Regina. The new school has a campus designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki; among its teachers is a visiting professor from Moscow University...
CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A medieval castle in the Ardennes is occupied by a decadent count, his child-wife, and a bumbling, boondoggling bunch of G.I.s who find themselves squarely in the path of the German thrust for Bastogne. Interweaving satire, tragedy and gothic mystery, Novelist Eastlake has created a small, surreal masterpiece...