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Duke's William T. ("Lap") Laprade, 69, who started teaching history at Durham's little Trinity College in 1909, went right on without turning a hair as the college vanished in a cloud of tobacco smoke and emerged as one of the richest and most gothic of U.S. universities. A specialist on the 18th century, Lap paced about his platform, waved his arms, laced his lectures with gossipy bulletins about the scandals and scoundrels, the brains and bunglers, of the courts and cabinets of yore. Pretending never to be satisfied ("Well," he would say of the best...
Harvard's Joseph Hudnut, 67, dean of the Graduate School of Design. A shy, mild-mannered man, Hudnut started out as a designer of gothic churches, later, in disgust, switched to modern ("I could never manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery was a "death mask of an ancient culture," the Jefferson Memorial "an egg on a pantry shelf in . . . a geometric Sahara," Grant's Tomb a "ponderous, huge monster." With Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he turned Harvard into the top school of modern architecture...
...April last year, 3,000 Philadelphians sentimentally gathered in the Pennsylvania Railroad's 71-year-old Broad Street Station to see the last train pull out. Though outsiders had long considered the sooty old building an eyesore, Philadelphians were fond of its ornate decorations and neo-Gothic gingerbread, liked to recall that it was once the world's biggest station. As the train left, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra played Auld Lang Syne. Then wreckers went to work to demolish the building and the 40-ft.-high unsightly "Chinese wall" over which the trains had come into the station...
...Elizabethan costumes too archaic to make G.I.s see the play in modern terms, Evans staged Hamlet as though it were played in Graustark. Designer Richard Sylbert did equally well on TV: the cameras caught the spirit of 19th century romanticism with long vistas of marbled palace corridors, Victorian alcoves, Gothic battlements...
...news brought howls of rage and angry letters from Munich's conservatives. Wrote one aroused citizen: "We don't want Neo-Gothic brick churches, but we don't want gas stations, either." The protests fell on deaf ears. Munich's Lutherans had already steered the design past the city art commission. The ground, they announced, will be broken this month...