Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the quiet, hardly obtrusive pile of Gothic buildings known as Princeton that squat on the New Jersey plains, have issued since its founding in 1746, men who have made the World shake, applaud, and learn. The university has produced men that made the country in which it is situated free, and shaped its growth...
Inside the Gothic doorways to Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, the great procession formed, bright with the hoods of scholars and notables from all over the world. As the bells of Harkness Tower pealed Onward,, Christian Soldiers, the column moved slowly across the campus to Woolsey Hall. There, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and fellow of the Yale Corporation, called the assembly to prayer. Yale's 250th anniversary celebration had begun...
Home to Innocence. Greene took his instruction from a priest named Father Trollope. For three months, he argued his uncertainties almost daily. "Riding on trams in winter past the Gothic hotel, the super-cinema, the sooty newspaper office where one worked at night, passing the single professional prostitute trying to keep the circulation going under the blue and powdered skin, one began slowly, painfully, reluctantly to populate heaven." A few weeks after Greene completed his instruction, he and Vivien were married by Father Trollope...
Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement have a striking similarity. Last Week, in a talk over the BBC's polysyllabic Third Program, Critic Lancaster charged that both schools rode their horses too hard...
...Goths maintained, perfectly correctly, given ... the prevailing intellectual climate of their time, that Gothic was the only style for churches. Where they went wildly wrong was to advance from this premise the untenable proposition that Gothic was the only style for railway stations...