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Four students were on duty across from the small, grey Ruskin-Gothic Peruvian Embassy. They knew that it was giving asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even...
Sousa on the Stomach. Sacheverell looked, says his brother, much as Henry VIII must have looked as a child: "broad face, green eyes and tawny hair." Edith was already "gothic" in aspect, gawky, nervous, dressed in expensive but "disfiguring" garments. She was nagged eternally by her mother, who was "always cruelly finding fault with her in front of other people." At 14 Edith's sensibilities had become so acute that she vomited on hearing John Philip Sousa conduct his brass band in London's Albert Hall...
Below the hill of Chartres, with its glorious Gothic tribute to the power of God, sprawls a drab and dirty token of modern man-the hutments and barbed wire of Prisoner of War Camp 501. Outwardly antithetical, camp and cathedral are both repositories of the same faith. Of the 5,000 German soldiers behind the wire, 450 are studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood under a prisoner-faculty of seven...
...Student Activities Center be built as a memorial to the Harvard dead of the Second World War, the Student Council has simultaneously advanced solutions for two prime University needs: an appropriate war memorial and a home for extra-curricular activities. A war memorial will be erected, and since ornate Gothic piles and lush statuary are no longer held in good repute, a living, functioning testimonial must be found. Nothing could more closely match the description than a structure dedicated to the advancement of the arts, publications, and discussion. In the years ahead, Harvard men using the proposed Activities Center would...
...clenched fist that stands for hatred, and for violence and for destruction. . . . And the other ... the symbol of the folded hands. They cannot strike, for they were not made for offense; they cannot protect, for they were not made for defense; they can only supplicate, only pray . . . ten Gothic spires aspiring heavenward for the souls...