Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gothic gloom of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral house on Nob Hill, 115 clerical and 385 lay delegates elected him Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California-slated to succeed Diocesan Bishop Karl Morgan Block when he retires next December. It took six ballots to do it. In Pike's favor were his age (44), moderate Low-Churchmanship and vigorous stand-taking as dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Against him were his ex-Roman Catholicism, the annulment of his first marriage and the same vigorous stand-taking...
...house was not always Gothic; the soaring arch and ribbed vault were daring innovations in the 12th century. The lights and lines of the church interiors shown on the following pages may be as revolutionary as Gothic architecture once was, may seem distractingly unchurchly to worshipers for whom religion and tradition go necessarily hand in hand. But each day's worship-and each generation's-also has an immediate, here-and-now quality; all over Europe new churches are going up that are inspired by this immediacy of religious faith. Their builders, like modern U.S. church architects (TIME...
...Truth." Blake's time, like the 20th century, was an age of rapid change, revolutions and large-scale wars. Much of his writing, too, has a peculiarly modern urgency. Yet the spirit of Blake's pictures is far indeed from modern art. He worshiped Raphael, pored over gothic sculpture and illuminations, spent seven years as an apprentice engraver, and recommended endless copying of nature as the only means to transcend it. "The bad artist seems to copy a great deal," he wrote. "The good one really does." Instead of the common modern view that painting ought...
LAST TALES, by Isak Dinesen. Gothic stories ranging in scene from Denmark to Italy, and turning on the tragic ironies that bow kings as well as poets and murderers. Superior fare for those who like a mixture of the sublime, the grotesque and the supernatural...
...latest stratagem employed by the Harvard Dramatic Club to advertise their production of "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" is a poster displaying Gothic arches. The arches lend an Elizabethan atmosphere and at the same time utilize perspective such that the word "whore" is barely visible to casual passers-by. If they could do it, the HDC would like to do away with this world altogether, since it has delayed printing orders, cancelled window displays, and prompted the hasty removal of posters from utility poles around the Square...