Word: gothicisms
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Died. Lyle Saxon, 54, local-colorist of the Louisiana bayou country; after long illness; in New Orleans. From oft-told tales about the quadroons and mulattoes who inhabited the shifting Mississippi delta, he wove novels of romance and violence (Children of Strangers, Lafitte, the Pirate] and neo-Gothic horror stories of New Orleans-below-the-belt (Gumbo...
Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox), an American-Gothic period piece based on a best-seller by Novelist Anya Seton, won't teach anyone much about the patroon system or the anti-rent wars, but it ought to teach a lesson to every simple farm girl in Greenwich, Conn...
...Miranda goes, with high hopes and a new Bible. Dragonwyck turns out to be a huge Gothic mansion near Albany. The relative turns out to be none other than haughty Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), whom any respectable Connecticut female should have spotted at once as not only a patroon but an untrustworthy, undemocratic rascal. Nicholas wears broadcloth and satin, dolefully plays a harpsichord and barks at his fat, stupid wife, treats his tenant-farmers like serfs...
Tobacco Scions. There is nothing genteel about the skeletons in Written on the Wind, and they never stay in the closet. They include second and third generations of a multimillionaire tobacco family, the Whitfields. Their native habitat (at Winton, N.C.) is a vast Gothic architectural horror built by the founder of the family fortune. Their pathological capers later take them to Manhattan, Florida and Europe. Some readers may think that they can trace an allusion, in the heir in this novel, to Zachary Smith Reynolds (of the Tobacco Reynoldses), whose wife, Libby Holman, was exonerated after his death by shooting...
...lived in the Gothic Middle Ages-and I am thinking not only of the skyline with its painted towers, gates and walls . . . the crooked, haunted-looking alleys. ... In the atmosphere itself something had clung of ... the hysteria of the dying Middle Ages, something of latent spiritual epidemic. It's a strange thing to say about a sensibly sober, modern commercial city, but it was conceivable that a Children's Crusade might suddenly erupt there-in short, an anciently neurotic substratum was perceptible...