Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week it was almost finished. For the first time since 1945 the whole of the cathedral was open to the public. Although the 445-ft. Gothic spire is not yet strong enough to hold it, a new 23-ton Pummerin-a giant bell which includes fragments of the old one-was wheeled to the gate of the cathedral, after a two-day procession through the villages between Vienna and Linz, where it was cast. On Sunday, crowds packed the cathedral and the streets around it as Theodor Cardinal Innitzer celebrated a pontifical Mass at the restored high altar. From...
Author Clark includes a good many descriptions of Roman churches ("It is all physical and close; God is not up in any Gothic shadows . . . The Anglo-Saxon, hunting everywhere for French cathedrals, feels his mind threatened like a lump of sugar in a cup of tea"). She also has a lot to say about the modern Romans ("Their voices carry like rockets .. . An American ... feels exposed . .."). And she tries very hard to evoke the past in her description of Hadrian's ruined villa at Tivoli...
...thousands of chemicals in the body, carbon-14 is the most widely useful tag in the isotope catalogue. Sometimes the tag can be hung on easily in the laboratory; sometimes nature has to be called in to help with "biosynthesis." In a fifth-floor laboratory atop a pseudo-Gothic building on the University of Chicago campus, intense researchers are growing common foxglove-in Pyrex cylinders filled with radioactive carbon dioxide. They harvest the leaves and make radioactive digitalis...
First speaker was Karl Geiringer (second from left) chairman of the Boston University School of Music. Geiringer, a musicologist, spoke on the influences of Rennaissance and Gothic music on modern style. He defined musical history as "a spiral upwards instead of a direct climb. At times, we reach a point surprisingly near where our forebearers stood...
Soon, as the first robin raises Santo Domingo on the gladsome return to northern climes, the lichened Gothic structures that line the still leafless boulevards shed their study oaken shutters, much as a yearling copperhead sheds its skin...