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First speaker was Karl Geiringer (second from left) chairman of the Boston University School of Music. Geiringer, a musicologist, spoke on the influences of Rennaissance and Gothic music on modern style. He defined musical history as "a spiral upwards instead of a direct climb. At times, we reach a point surprisingly near where our forebearers stood...
Soon, as the first robin raises Santo Domingo on the gladsome return to northern climes, the lichened Gothic structures that line the still leafless boulevards shed their study oaken shutters, much as a yearling copperhead sheds its skin...
...Commission, even the Houses of Parliament suffered. Once again the stone came in unseasoned and without regard for the original lie of the rock. "A few decades of exposure to the climate of London and particularly to its acid-charged rain, and the whole of that vast display of Gothic revivalism began to crumble and dissolve...
...bequeathed $100,000 for a college hall. There was one condition: that half of the net income from rents was to "be used to provide scholarships for students who enter college with the intention of becoming ministers in the Protestant Episcopal Church." So, brick by brick, Matthews rose into Gothic splendor and became "the finest college dormitory in America...
...returned. Was it brain sickness or poison? Why did Rainaldi show up? Why did Cousin Rachel allow Philip to think she would marry him, and then back out when he had signed over the estate? The scene is the Rebecca country 100 years or more ago, the atmosphere is Gothic, the suspense is played out like Florentine silk cord, and the ending comes where most mysteries begin. Put it all together and it spells the first big bestseller...