Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEAMBOAT GOTHIC (562 pp.)-Frances Parkinson Keyes-Messner...
...latest Keyes novel, Steamboat Gothic, will not let anyone down. The style is reliably ponderous, the dialogue stilted and sometimes all but interminable. Steamboat has other tried & tested ingredients. It covers a good long stretch of time (1869-1930) following the fortunes of the Batchelor family on a plantation in Louisiana. Author Keyes knows her Louisiana, proves it with a foreword on sources, a bibliography of steamboating, and all her usual period impedimenta: details of dress, descriptions of houses and plantations. And there is enough clatter about wills, heirs and taxes to bemuse an expert on the Napoleonic Code...
When John D. Rockefeller Jr. was ready to build Rockefeller Center, Harrison had definitely enlisted in the camp of modern architecture and was ready to fight for it. He was sure he was on the winning side. Gothic and neoclassic skyscrapers were dying out in Manhattan; Hood had just designed the starkly simple Daily News Building and the equally simple-if startlingly pea-green-McGraw-Hill Building. Harrison and his partner Corbett were among the architects chosen by the Rockefellers to work on the designs for the most ambitious project of the century...
...years the New England meetinghouse was as much a center of American civilization as the Gothic cathedral had been in Europe. Its hard-hewed timbers formed the foundations of a way of life that began with religious dissent and ended, after a long and interesting journey, in political democracy. To show how this process worked, Ola Elizabeth Winslow, a Pulitzer prizewinner in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards, has written Meetinghouse Hill: 1630-1783 (Macmillan; $4), published this week...
...toyed with a harpsichord and browsed through his favorite books. A bachelor to the end, he interested himself in such things as gothic wallpaper, and compiled huge collections of notes for works he never executed. He pondered long and often on his special afflictions, melancholy and gout, and showed positive enthusiasm on the subject of death. "Our friend Dr. Chapman," he informed a correspondent briskly, "is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five mackerel...in his belly. He eat them all at one dinner...They say he made a very good...