Word: gothicisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polyp is the architect of Gothic reefs of coral; And it can change its sex at will and not be thought immoral. The Polyp can be male or not, whichever is its pleasure; Or even a hermaphrodite if it can find the leisure...
...growing according to the tides of population, and it must be made for use at all hours of the day. To please the taxpayer, the architect must also pay attention to cost-rby cutting down on stairways, waste space, and such traditional gimcracks as Greek columns, Georgian domes and Gothic towers. But most of all, the new school must eliminate restrictions on the pupil. Says Architect Ralph Burkhard, who remembers his own days in Manhattan's prisonlike P.S. 6: "When I design a school, all I think of is making it as different from those jails as possible...
Whether Rouault's art will be honored in future as it is now is obviously anyone's guess. His deceptively coarse technique smacks of archaism; it derives partly from Romanesque sculpture and partly from Gothic stained glass. He has not enlarged the bounds of art but only formed an eclectic, intensely personal method of expressing himself. Rouault's paintings are as rich in color as Byzantine mosaics, but less clearly conceived, and as deep in human feeling as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible, but less fully developed. Yet the fact that such comparisons are possible...
Duke's William T. ("Lap") Laprade, 69, who started teaching history at Durham's little Trinity College in 1909, went right on without turning a hair as the college vanished in a cloud of tobacco smoke and emerged as one of the richest and most gothic of U.S. universities. A specialist on the 18th century, Lap paced about his platform, waved his arms, laced his lectures with gossipy bulletins about the scandals and scoundrels, the brains and bunglers, of the courts and cabinets of yore. Pretending never to be satisfied ("Well," he would say of the best...
Harvard's Joseph Hudnut, 67, dean of the Graduate School of Design. A shy, mild-mannered man, Hudnut started out as a designer of gothic churches, later, in disgust, switched to modern ("I could never manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery was a "death mask of an ancient culture," the Jefferson Memorial "an egg on a pantry shelf in . . . a geometric Sahara," Grant's Tomb a "ponderous, huge monster." With Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he turned Harvard into the top school of modern architecture...