Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the patio has Gothic gargoyles and segmented arches typically Spanish, there is an overall order and clarity that reaches back to Greco-Roman architecture. Even the marble ornamentation bespeaks the Renaissance virtues of knowledge and diversity. Military trophies, helmets and maces share the stone with musical instruments; there is a sculptural bestiary of basilisks and griffins, scrolled foliage and fruits. Proudly, the young grandee could not resist a final fillip: carved in the marble is a continuous frieze in Latin which proclaims that he "erected this castle as the castle of his title...
...social systems therefore doomed. Now, in The Spire, he symbolically sums up the works of civilization as a stone spire and all human consciousness as the exaltation, confusion and final despair of one lightheaded old churchman struggling to have the spire added to the body of a Gothic cathedral...
...good time to be back, for Griswold had just rescued the university from a serious case of postwar doldrums. He more than tripled the endowment to $375 million, built 26 new buildings that gave the neo-Gothic campus a modern look, established research fellowships for young scholars. But the last days of his 13-year tenure were trying ones for Brewster and Yale. Griswold had always been rather distant from all but a few faculty favorites; now he was dying of intestinal cancer, and it fell to Brewster, as provost, to run day-to-day affairs. Yet he had neither...
...lady friend of Don Carlos noted last week. Venetians liked Don Carlos for a while, but cooled to him when he began pouring out whiskey "in spoonfuls." And so the splendiferous Spaniard turned to a new hobby: refurbishing a castle near Paris, where he is building a neo-Gothic tomb for his recently deceased...
...ruined buildings were restored, in many cases stone for stone, the way they were before the war, and today the city is a pleasant hodgepodge of architectural styles, running the gamut from grim Gothic to glass-and-steel modern, with ample home-grown Rococo sandwiched between. Primarily a center of light industry, Munich today provides 700,000 jobs (and has 18,700 unfilled), turns out everything from optical equipment and ready-to-wear clothing to motorcycles and beer-of which the Munchners drink 230 liters a year v. 108 for the average German...