Word: gothic
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CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A medieval castle deep in the Ardennes Forest 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 surreal small masterpiece...
...Gothic mystery, savage modern satire, heroic epic-Castle Keep interweaves all three to create a surreal small masterpiece about the horrors and grim humors...
...Hammond Radio Research Laboratory, over the years collected some 350 patents for inventions ranging from the prototype of the modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...
Abstract Lenses. The magnificent Gothic cathedrals, Kidder Smith points out, "were designed for a fearsomely omnipotent deity, a procession-laden liturgy and a priestly autocracy, which certainly does not answer the problems of today's ethos." New churches must touch the individual in a modern, more personal way; their stained glass can no longer be a luminous Bible full of a panoply of cartoon parables for the illiterate. Says Loire: "The glass should not be a distraction, but it should aid people to enter into themselves...
Actually, the demands placed on modern stained glass exceed even those imposed on Gothic craftsmanship. For Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Loire constructed 22,000 foot-square glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...