Word: gothic
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This theory has many takers. Owen emphasized the "more cohesive sense of the community there, and the greater sense of freedom here;" and Whiting talks about the "esprit de corps at Yale which you don't find as much here." Professor Key feels that the orderly, Gothic architecture in New Haven is symbolic of this when compared to Cambridge's haphazard combination of various architectural patterns...
...party for the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, she firmly declined: "I cannot meet this bibulous representative of a degenerate monarchy." James McNeill Whistler remembered Rome as "a bit of an old ruin alongside of a railway station where I saw Mrs. Potter Palmer." But her picture-crammed castle ("English Gothic of the square-headed variety") on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago was Mrs. Palmer's favorite seat. "Adieu" she would tell friends in Paris. "I must go back to Chicago to give the Charity Ball...
...Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted "to express the modern dilemma" in the form of a medieval morality play-a tall order which he is seldom able to fill. The Gothic spirit had the natural beauty and mysteriousness of a growing thing. Bergman's Gothicisms, on the contrary, are as artificial and complex as paper roses, and spiritually they have about as much of the genuine Gothic mood and inwardness as the Mobil oil gargoyle. In Bergman's camera...
...been called a "theologian's theologian" (among the schools he attended: the University of Texas, Union Theological Seminary, Edinburgh's New College), is nevertheless a direct and positive talker, more popular in class than in the pulpit. He has strong ideas about everything. Examples: Missions: "A Gothic cathedral would look strange on a desert, and one can be a Christian without being a westerner. A lot has been said about demythologizing Christianity; well, in missionary work it needs to be deculturized...
...white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree, but tranquil and tranquilizing -a Gothic figure whose vestments fall about him in Gothic folds, whose long hands are raised in Gothic gestures, both stiff and graceful...