Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other M.P.s in the Commonwealth -not in India or Ghana or far-off Tonga -would have put up so long with so many hallowed inconveniences. The Houses of Parliament, which grew out of Edward the Confessor's Palace of Westminster, sprawl over eight acres of Gothic mazes, including 1,100 rooms, eleven quadrangles and 100 staircases. But aside from Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition, not one of the 630 M.P.s has an office all his own-or even rates a permanent desk...
...colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than as standardized as those in a modern motel...
...development made the trip to New Haven important. For the visit gives us all a chance to renew our faith in Yale, to see that the boys are still freshly washed and pressed, still sing sentimental songs, believe in good fellowship. We hope that today's pilgrimage to the Gothic halls will reassure us that the old, solid collegiate virtues still flourish...
...Prices have doubled in the past two years. These startling statistics were underlined last week by the breakneck rush of business at the fourth annual Art and Antiques Fair at Munich's Haus der Kunst, which 'was for many years a U.S. officers' club. 0f Gothic figures and paintings, one in four was imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were trading heirlooms for food, and antique treasures drained out of Germany. Last year, for the first time since the war, the flow...
...market stands today, there is simply not enough stuff available, so anything goes. Career girls and young couples invariably start with a 'genuine' baroque angel cum gilded wings. A stabilized bank account calls for a Biedermeier dining-room set. The first sign of real affluence is a Gothic Madonna-polychrome for beginners, and Riemenschneider brown for the sophisticated. Real collecting comes later...