Word: gothicisms
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Governor Vivian, excited by the Denver Post's black gothic headlines and red-tempered editorials, had called the session to pass a constitutional amendment to keep Japanese nationals from buying even one foot of Colorado's fair soil. About 1300 Japanese, pushed off the Pacific Coast by the Army, have been resettled in Colorado since Pearl Harbor...
Coventry Cathedral, almost obliterated by German bombs, will rise again. But the new fane, as described last week by Coventry's Bishop Neville Vincent Gorton, will be an innovation among Anglican Cathedrals. The striking change will not be in architecture (it will be modernized Gothic, designed by famed Roman Catholic architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott), but in the cathedral's interdenominational character...
...view of the ferocity of the Italian campaign, the damage was remarkably small. Few irreplaceable buildings were destroyed in Apulia or Calabria. Farther north the destruction was greater. Among the monuments completely demolished were: the 12th-Century cathedral at Benevento; Naples' Santa Chiara Church-the finest Gothic church in the city; the Church of the Incoronata, at Naples, which contained frescoes of the Sienese School...
...October of 1870 the Reverend Phillips Brooks laid the cornerstone of this most ambitious building ever attempted by the University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of the student as training grounds the war, was selected as a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion. In eloquent verses he expressed the hopes of its builders...
...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting Freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic night-mare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure...