Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists sanctioned the meeting of the East and West Germans-"Germans at one table," was their slogan-in the hope of promoting themselves as the champions of German unity. East German President Wilhelm Pieck in person attended the opening session in East Berlin's graceful Gothic Marienkirche (he tried to slip in through the center portal usually reserved for brides, bishops and, in the old days, the Kaiser, but was hurriedly eased over to a side door...
...physical Yale is plunked incongruously down in the heart of a prosaic, overgrown town-a neo-Gothic citadel besieged by a grid of Main Streets. Neon signs blink into its leaded windows; drugstores, shoe stores and tailor shops challenge its ivy-covered walls. The worlds of Samuel and Howard Johnson are but a step apart...
...Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls. Yale's Divinity School looks as if it might have been moved up from Williamsburg; the university library looks like a cathedral ("Must I genuflect?" a bemused visitor once exclaimed); its main power plant is clothed in stone to look like a Gothic tower...
...Yale Spirit. Yet throughout this neo-Gothic land runs an intense esprit that seems to start with the Fellows of the mighty Corporation itself. These 19 gentlemen are the guardians of 1,005 acres, masters of $125 million in stocks and bonds, a 1,100-man faculty, an enrollment of 7,500. But such is their loyalty to Yale that rarely does any one of them miss a meeting. Even the nation's Secretary of State and one of its busiest Senators, Robert A. Taft, will once a month gladly drop everything in Washington for two days of sitting...
Carson McCullers was no flash in the pan. A year later, in. 1941, came another novel, Reflections in a Golden Eye. It was an exercise in the gothic tale, Southern style, and was crammed with pathology, but the pathology was handled with restraint and taste. In 1946 she published her third novel, The Member of the Wedding, a winsome remembrance of adolescence that later became a hit Broadway show...