Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edward Gibbon (speaking of the Gothic cathedrals...
Present use of the nine and a half story neo-gothic structure is far below capacity, ranging from 550 to 850 students a day. Payne-Whitney officials estimate that during 1942-45 ten times this number were in the gym daily, because of compulsory physical training for all undergraduates and an exhaustive physical fitness program for 3000 Army Air Corps trainees...
Until almost the peak of the Italian Renaissance, German painters remained absorbed in refining their own massive, strong-lined Gothic style. The first great German artist to cross the Italian Alps was Albrecht Dürer, who returned with his eyes aglow. Back home in Niirnberg, young Dürer began turning out drawings and prints that combined the high skills of medieval German craftsmanship with the new techniques and ideas he had discovered in Venice. The result was the opening of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer's prints and drawings became sought-after collectors' items...
...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...