Word: gothic
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...room Park Avenue apartment. The Ganzes own America's biggest private collection of Picassos, and called in Designer Robsjohn-Gibbings to find a way to keep the Picassos from overpowering the rooms. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Mrs. Ganz selected massive pieces of authentic Italian Renaissance and Spanish Gothic furniture, mixed them with 17th century English chairs, created a remarkably effective multi-century effect that recognizes Picasso's presence but does not succumb to him altogether...
Yalies live in gothic buildings. This seems a suitable setting for the ideas of yesteryear. Fellx Cayo '54, Yale...
...homely, American Gothic image was an understatement of the real man, for John Glenn seemed almost destined for last week's time of triumph. All of his adult years he has been pursuing the stars. As a test pilot and a combat flyer with 149 missions in World War II and Korea (he holds five Distinguished Flying Crosses and an Air Medal with 18 clusters), Glenn had lived with supersonic speed and the constant possibility of sudden death. To the millions who saw and heard him last week, it was obvious that John Glenn was a perfect choice to become...
...paints barns and farmhouses, his small children (two boys, two girls), even a pair of empty boots crumpled on a chair. In one scene a young man stands silhouetted against a Gothic-American bay window in the empty parlor of an abandoned house. It would have been merely stagy were it not for its brooding strength; and for all their beauty. Chumley's houses and barns would be flat were it not for his lyric brush and the moods it evokes. A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday...
...took time off from his voluminous novels, poems and anthologies to complete St. Ives, the novel left unfinished at his death by Robert Louis Stevenson. Author Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier has performed a similar service for Sir Arthur, who died in 1944 at the age of 80. In her Gothic conclusion, Author du Maurier is inventive enough, but her sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian master could recreate such Quiller-Couch lines as "This most ancient cirque of Castle Dor, deserted, bramble-grown...