Word: gothic
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...Fama; Grand Prize Films) is the first German film in several years that is worth the expense of its subtitles. It starts as a brisk thriller about a drug-addicted ballerina who pilfers her poison from an apothecary's safe. But soon the picture is twisting through some gothic involutions of motive, and it finishes in one of those duels of abstractions the Germans love and almost manage to make believable...
...districts and into the suburbs. At a cost of more than $1,100,000, raised by parishioners without the help of any big philanthropist's contribution, 119 year-old Episcopal Christ Church will be razed and rebuilt on its present site (in an architectureal mixture of modern and Gothic), despite the presence of Cincinnati's nearby Skid Row. "This is a city parish," said Senior Warden Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator), "and it's going to stay where it belongs-downtown." * In 1953, membership in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (Northern) boomed to a record...
...Oppenheimer, who had devoured so much more learning than the typical American Gothic freshman, consider himself, of all people, a Goth? Why did this young man, apparently quivering with life, bless Harvard for bringing him "almost alive"? Did learning somehow cut him off from life instead of doing its normal job of bringing him closer to it? If so, that was not because Oppenheimer concentrated on technical studies. He decided that physics was his first interest, but he did not enter into that austere and noble priesthood, as some did, without exposure to the world of ideas that lay beyond...
...cable station men from Direction) and listening to native music, the royal couple set forth again, bearing delicate ship models as gifts for their children. King Ross himself stood by the wheel of their barge to guide it through the atoll's tricky shoals back to the Gothic, bound for Ceylon and more ceremonies, more crowds...
...square blocks of Manhattan's Morningside Heights enclosed by Union's grey Gothic buildings, Pit Van Dusen lives the fragmented and busy life of a corporation president, multiple board member, personal counselor and theologian. His day begins in his sunny, comfortable, ten-room apartment at 7:15 with a hot (then cold) shower, and ends there around midnight with a bedtime glass of ginger ale and milk. The period between is a hectic but orderly scramble of board meetings (he is a trustee of ten educational institutions, plus the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board), lectures, student...