Word: gothicisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember having seen--for good measure I'm even tempted to throw in Guernica! This painting is seen to best advantage on an overcast day when the Fogg puts an overhead light upon it. The best setting for it, however, would be the magnificent shadowed light of an Early Gothic Church. The other works in the gallery include another fine Blue Period Picasso, four fine drawings by Matisse of Mlle. Roudchenko, and a splendid drawing by Seurat. In this last-mentioned work the poetic simplicity of Seurat's technique, form and composition are at their lyrical best...
After she has studied at the School of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, her superiors send her to the Belgian Congo as a nurse, where she is assigned to work with a character called Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper...
Lost: Tooth & Growl. Against this gothic backdrop, the contemporary Walter Winchell has become virtually unrecognizable. Gentled by his years-or by something-the aging lion has lost much tooth and growl. The gossip content is redolent with secret mergers, splituations and apartaches, sexcess stories about hat-chicks and rot-and-roll singers, nawdy titles (what a fourcabulary! ), pufflicity seekers. Subdued is the shrill attack and jugular slash. There are more handsome compliments ("Hedda Hopper's attractive hairdo and apparel" ), more sentimental excursions into history ("[George Washington] was the father of our country. Even more-he was a brother...
Henry Bourne, a junior who came here with Advanced Standing, mulls over the problems of the Zeitgeist postulate in historical writing. Examining Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, and Southern's Making of the Middle Ages, Bourne finds that the first two historians tend to invoke a time-spirit to explain the relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians...
...Lady's Not for Burning has a certain grandeur of language and sentiment, of metaphor and tone. The Harvard Dramatic Club has added a grandeur of production. The first hint of a truly fine performance comes even as the curtain rises on a massive, more or less gothic set admirably suited to Fry's time direction: "1400 more or less exactly...