Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homely, American Gothic image was an understatement of the real man, for John Glenn seemed almost destined for last week's time of triumph. All of his adult years he has been pursuing the stars. As a test pilot and a combat flyer with 149 missions in World War II and Korea (he holds five Distinguished Flying Crosses and an Air Medal with 18 clusters), Glenn had lived with supersonic speed and the constant possibility of sudden death. To the millions who saw and heard him last week, it was obvious that John Glenn was a perfect choice to become...
...paints barns and farmhouses, his small children (two boys, two girls), even a pair of empty boots crumpled on a chair. In one scene a young man stands silhouetted against a Gothic-American bay window in the empty parlor of an abandoned house. It would have been merely stagy were it not for its brooding strength; and for all their beauty. Chumley's houses and barns would be flat were it not for his lyric brush and the moods it evokes. A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday...
...took time off from his voluminous novels, poems and anthologies to complete St. Ives, the novel left unfinished at his death by Robert Louis Stevenson. Author Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier has performed a similar service for Sir Arthur, who died in 1944 at the age of 80. In her Gothic conclusion, Author du Maurier is inventive enough, but her sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian master could recreate such Quiller-Couch lines as "This most ancient cirque of Castle Dor, deserted, bramble-grown...
...language has a literature worth reading, Harvard should teach it. If a language is interesting structurally or historically, Harvard should teach it; very properly, Harvard has a course in Gothic, which has only one extant text, because it is important linguistically. If a language is useful for scholarly research, Harvard should teach it; for example, Dutch (which Harvard doesn't teach) is invaluable for students of Fine Arts. And Harvard should teach living languages, so that its graduates may communicate with other men. This last is clearly the broadest and loosest criterion. Plainly, since even teaching all the living tongues...
Christ Church in New Haven and Trinity Church in Princeton (both off-campus Spiscopal churches) will serve as sets, providing Gothic atmosphere similar to that of Saint John's Chapel here in Cambridge. Saybrook College at Yale and the Chapel Deacons, a student group at Princeton, will sponsor the production...