Word: gothic
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...every four of the new churches is modern (see color pages) Until recently, U.S. congregations and architects favored elaborate copies of older styles, particularly Gothic. But many 20th century churchgoers found American Gothic phony, dark and depressing. Since World War II, designers have kicked over church traditions so completely that one architect has described the state of religious architecture as "anarchy," with good and bad sprouting together in the search for newness and originality. But the best designers build on the basic requirement of all religious buildings: that they produce in worshipers a sense of closeness to one another...
...Gothic Tale. In London, the Admiralty granted Leading Seaman Walter W. Hampson leave, flew him to his Plymouth home from Malta after his wife complained their house had been haunted for the past two months by a terrifying, headless, black and white phantom...
...look in its original setting?' I'd try to reconstruct the setting in my mind. Now in a museum you can actually give some idea of the original setting - not much, but some. For instance, some doors at The Cloisters are real Gothic doors. The very act of passing through them helps one enter the medieval world. Then finally I'd ask, 'Why do I like this candlestick?' Or 'Why don't I?' I'd try to make sure I liked or disliked it as a candlestick, not as a reminder...
Author Goyen is nettled when people confuse him with the lunatic fringe of highbrow Dixie. He insists he is a true Texan whose "themes . . . have no affinity with the eccentricities of Southern personality or Gothic bizarreries." He has never lived in the Deep Southern states. "only passed through them on a train." Just the same, so susceptible an author should not take such a risk again...
...Amid the Gothic battlements of West Point, President Eisenhower was marking time with his memories last week, relaxed and more thoroughly happy than he had been for a very long time. The class of 1915 was the one "the stars fell on," and 40 of its 59 generals were on hand for its 40th reunion-among them Bradley, Stratemeyer, Harmon, Van Fleet. On hand, too, was Mamie Eisenhower, looking well in summer prints; she seemed to know everyone there...