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Publisher Patterson is grey, wrinkled, friendly, spends much time circulating through his modernistic News building on East 42nd Street, sallying out around the town to find out what the masses are thinking. Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering, rules his paper from a lofty office in the Gothic Tribune Tower, possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these...
...turning out the sweet, peaceful solemnity of their religious paintings. The visions of monsters assailing St. Anthony have nothing to do with the Renaissance. Neither have the radiant Resurrection of the Isenheim Altar, of which Stefan George wrote; nor the mystic Incarnation of the Altar, placed in a little Gothic chapel where "lines live and flame and quiver, figures twine and inter-wine, pillars shoot upward, arches swing, towers stretch and strive to heaven...
Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke is a distant cousin of Denmark's King Christian. His first wife is a middle-aged woman named Ellen, who divorced him in 1921, wrote best-selling Seven Gothic Tales in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. Baron Bror's second wife is a pert, pretty, English girl of 28, named Eva, who spends most of her time seeking adventure. During one long trek alone in Africa, her automobile broke down. She had to be pushed by natives for 32 days. In Ethiopia last year she watched...
...Haven have been more radical, for Yale has been bogged down in the past by a more powerful pedagogical conservatism than her Cambridge sister. Today Yale has to her credit, among other things, a munificent endowment, fine technical facilities, a House plan comprising fine buildings, weird combination of Gothic and Georgian though they be, an increasing enrollment of celebrated scholars and teachers, as well as a Law School with few peers. Although these improvements do not by any means exhaust the list, the most striking fact about such a representative collection is that they are all of relatively recent date...
Although his language and his rhythms are modern, the world of this poet has much in common with that Gothic land of bleak plains, deserted cities, brooding cliffs and endless solitudes that characterized the poetic age of Byron...