Word: gothic
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...Well, There It Is." In a sense, wealthy (endowment: $20 million plus an annual income from the Duke Endowment Trust) Duke is really not at all the parvenu it seems. Long before its Gothic towers rose on the empty fields along the western edge of Durham, N.C., the town already had a solid little liberal arts college named Trinity. Said the Trinity catalogue in 1892: "The society of Durham is cultured and elegant." Even more important, elegant Durham also had money. Tobacco Tycoon Washington Duke poured thousands into...
Mold & Wilt. A former Tennessee schoolteacher who got a Ph.D. from Harvard and became associate director of the Rockefeller-founded General Education Board. Edens has kept his two campuses (Gothic for men, Georgian for women) on a steady, upward course. He runs one of the top forestry schools in the nation, one of the ranking medical schools in the South. He has the 13th largest (1,150,000 volumes, 1,550,000 manuscripts) university library in the U.S., and though his law school is still trying to catch up, his flourishing divinity school is one of the South...
...more money to be made in selling Malskat's fakes than in Malskat's originals. The two partners soon swamped the German market with up to 2,000 expert imitations of 71 ancient and modern masters. Then came the idea of "restoring" St. Mary's Gothic murals. Recalled Malskat: "I was allowed to stop fabricating French impressionists. Fey had a better job for me: I had to go back to the Middle Ages." But when "that crook Fey took all the credit and most of the money," Malskat admitted, he decided to reveal the hoax...
...remembered lover; and the young man's cousin, a great ruin of a woman, who suddenly presents a claim of her own to the dead love. The bond between the two older women, one strangely dominating the other's life, might once have grown into a whole Gothic novel, but no Goth is Author Bowen: her plot twists are in the mind, her castles are moated by irony rather than romance. It is the kind of story where mood is action: each fall of spirits is barometered, each falling flower microscoped. Hovering on the story's edges...
...look of a fictional heroine lately escaped from a 16th century castle. She likes to dwell on the resemblance between her thin, aristocratic features and those of Elizabeth I. Before Edith's portrait in London's Tate Gallery, an American exclaimed: "Lord, she's Gothic, Gothic enough to hang bells...