Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he published a history of the Borgias that held the critics fascinated in the gothic embrace of its style. Then, in 1904, he wrote Hadrian...
Nearly all of the world's most beautiful churches are pure Gothic, and many of the least beautiful are latter-day imitation Gothic. Even in the functional-minded mid-20th century, few architects have tried to break the mold, and only a rare few have had any success at it. One of the boldest tries is Joseph D. Murphy's gymnasium-like St. Ann's Catholic Church in Normandy...
There were a few U.S. novelists in the middle ranks who gave promise of reaching the top some day. From the South came two novels shucked clean of old magnolia and Faulkneresque gothic: Thomas Hal Phillips' neatly written, believable son & father story, Search for a Hero; and Worth Tuttle Hedden's Love Is a Wound, a thoroughly honest and quietly dramatic tale of slavish and unrequited love in North Carolina. By & large, U.S. writers seemed to serve up fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk The Silver Chalice, Thomas Costain East of Eden, John Steinbeck Giant, Edna Ferber Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
Steamboat smiles and worries through three generations of Batchelor loves & sorrows, business ups & downs. By the time grandson Larry gets Cindy Lou, both Steamboat Gothic architecture and Steamboat Gothic ideas are beginning to crumble. The mistress of Cindy Lou is now Louise, whom Larry brought back from France after World War I. They already have a son and two daughters who could quite easily touch off a sequel. The fresh scene has already been set: oil is struck on Cindy Lou, and the old gothic pile itself has been turned into the Clyde Batchelor Community Center...