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...WORLD OF Robertson Davies is akin to a Gothic Cathedral. Amid gargoyles, demons, angels, saints, monkish chants, exotic beasts, and arcane spells, Davies weaves his enchantments. With the Depford Trilogy under his belt and, more recently, The Rebel Angels to his credit, Davies has established himself not only as a major force in Canadian literature but as a truly talented if slightly cultish figure on the international literary scene...
...Houses made entirely of Bakelite! During the late 1920s and early '30s, a remarkable new aesthetic took hold: for an object to look modern, it had to look as if it had been retrieved from the future. Among a good many designers, sentimental nostalgia for the picture-book past --Gothic, Tudor, American colonial--was supplanted by an equally romantic infatuation with the future, nostalgia in reverse...
Charles Dickens died having finished only half of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and that tantalizing incompleteness has prompted countless attempts to round off the novel's Gothic plot. The story echoes Dickens' familiar themes of unspoken sexual obsession, middle-class hypocrisy and the crushing burden of guilty secrets. It also contains some of his wittiest portraits of pomp and vanity. Fans of the book will look in vain for more than vague resemblances in the amiable musical version that opened on Broadway last week. Composer- Author Rupert Holmes has framed Drood within a Victorian music-hall pastiche...
Boston Camerata: Gothic Voices: Trinity Church, Boston, Saturday...
...Sackler would sit on a piece of land once occupied by what was an example of the mid-fifties International style, next to a beautiful adaptation of the International style into the brutalist Gund Hall, next to Memorial Hall - the epitome of Victorian Gothic; next to the Fogg Art Museum - a graceful Georgian revival. And in circles radiating out from the Sackler--Sever Hall and Austin Hall at the Law School designed by Richardson, the man who reshaped 19th century architecture; University Hall designed by Bulfinch the man who set the standards for early American architecture; Massachusetts Hall...