Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making art a mirror of nature, also continued in Durer. In the series of "Madonnas" done between 1495 and 1511 there is the crispness and detail, that are associated with Durer's greatest powers of draughtsmanship. His capacity for fantasy as well as natural representation, a legacy of the gothic cathedrals, is evident in the drawings on apocalyptical themes (see cut). General religious discontent in Germany fed the imagination of the people. They felt particularly close to apocalyptical events which many suspected would occur in their own time. We notice too in St. Michael's fight against the Dragon, emphasis...
Simone Signoret has had enough. She flees, and Vera fatalistically awaits her end, aided only by stubble-bearded Charles Vanel, an ambiguous private detective with the disconcerting habit of turning up in her bedroom at midnight to report his progress. The terrors mount to the satisfying crescendo of a Gothic nightmare as Vera, haunted by predawn whispers, creakings and rustlings, retreats to her own bathroom, finds the tub filled with water and containing the staring body of her drowned husband. She dies of heart failure, and Director Clouzot brings his masterly thriller to a shocker of a conclusion that...
...satisfied with the modest architectural glories of 1874, or even with imitation Gothic? With a little imagination and more funds the true splendors of the Middle Ages could be recalled. The glare of electric lights should be replaced by the romantic and less expensive flicker of torches. Mass produced desks and chairs are an anachronism; more in keeping would be oaken banquet tables and hand wrought benches. Crossed lances and suits of armor would be more appealing than flags and plaques. In keeping with the medieval atmosphere, the psychological laboratories in the basement should become dungeons and the white mice...
...Spurred on" by alumni pressure, the Corporation has decided to restore the railings, pinnacles, spires, and other Gothic ornaments of the roof and tower of Memorial Hall. Work on the $100,000 project will begin early next spring and last about six months, William Bentinck-Smith '37, Assistant to the President, announced yesterday...
...while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves a tapestry of multiplicity-within-unity. Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones in gold and leaves her sons naked," chided St. Bernard of Clairvaux. But in their devotion to Mary, the medieval sons of Paris were content so long as they could carry the stones...