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...those who have only a nodding acquaintance with it, the University of Pittsburgh is probably best known for 1) the 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning, 2) Dr. Jonas Salk, and 3) its football team, the Panthers. But in future, Pitt may well be most famous for the 42-year-old dynamo it has as chancellor. In his 18 months in office. Edward H. Litchfield has made it clear that he wants to make Pitt nothing less than one of the top six universities in the country. His ambition has proved contagious. "Ever since he came," says...
...Yale is Gothic and glib. Princeton is smaller and in the country. Both of them have football weekends...
Opponents of the proposed poll on Memorial Hall contended that it would be only a contest between modern and Gothic architecture, that the University probably could not change a memorial, and that it would involve consideration of the expansion problem...
COUNT LUNA, by Alexander Lerne/-Holenla (252 pp.; Criferion; $4), cross-pollinates Poe and Kafka to tell two Gothic tales of the occult. The title tale, Count Luna, is set in present-day Vienna. Alexander Jessiersky, frayed scion of a shoddy aristocratic line, fears that a penniless Count Luna whom he has uninten tionally wronged will return from a concentration camp grave to exact revenge. One night he hears footsteps on the floor above his palace study, storms out and plunges a pair of scissors repeatedly into the fleeing, shadowy figure of the intruder -only to discover that...
...FIELD OF VISION, by Wright Morris (251 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), takes a handful of "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners, sits them in the stands of a Mexican bull ring, and has them re-fight the few past moments of truth in their lives. What dies in the ring is flesh; what has already perished in the stands is hope, mind and spirit. Among the fatally gored spectators: an icy arch-mom, the "chaste virginal mother of three"; her husband, a man who has transferred what little emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile...