Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whence come the echoes of "Huh! Huh! Huh! I am the Shadow!", "Hi-Ho Silver" and "On, King, on, you huskies ..." See SHOW BUSINESS, Gothic Revival...
...student of science and a master of other people's minds, who devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty." Back in the dark ages before television, his weekly right-wronging rescue of Margo Lane held families in quivering suspense before the midget Gothic table...
...Commons is never vulgar. And yet its two leaders looked as though they had been mixing it in the neo-Gothic corridors, when they hurried back to London from holidays for consultations on Cyprus. Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 61, had a bandage on his right hand, while Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, 48, sported a smashing shiner. Both, however, were casualties in the never-ending struggle to relax, dammit. Wilson had banged his eye in a fall among the rocks of Cornwall's Scilly Isles; Sir Alec pricked his finger pruning roses at his Berwickshire estate...
...great deal of biographical information about Pushkin, which would be more helpful if it were collected in one chunk, not squirreled about the entire work; and 6) repeated masterly demonstrations of the art of literary insult. Dostoevsky, for instance, is described as "a much overrated, sentimental, and Gothic novelist of the time...
...just five years before he won the Nobel Prize, nearly all his novels were out of print. Many white Southerners still turn away from him as difficult, gothic and horror-ridden, loaded down with a guilt they claim they do not feel. Yet today William Faulkner is the one writer-sociologist, historian or novelist, Southerner or Northerner, white or Negro-who is inescapably relevant to a compassionate understanding of the Southern crisis...