Word: gothicisms
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...fictional sisters from Columbus, Ohio move into a characteristic Greenwich Village mare's nest-a furnished, one-room, basement apartment (with partitioned bathroom) suggesting a cross between a Gothic crypt and a rummage sale...
...sleeve-hearted age, when even General Washington could shed a distinguished tear over a drizzly romance. Its novels were luridly plotted to make up for the complete lack of individuality in their characters: seduced female, splendid rake, long-suffering wife, noble savage, etc. Popular was the Gothic atmosphere of ruins, nightingales, skeletons, poison vials...
...locusts in China, descended on Yale last weekend. Cambridge was left a deserted village while, by Pullman and by thumb, the Crimson supporters swarmed south to New Haven. Well might the bulldog have retired into his Kennel and watched the hordes go by. But the portals of every Gothic structure were thrown wide open in welcome. House football teams were provided with bed, board, and dance tickets. Soccer and touch football men got like treatment. And inter-House dining privileges were honored in "brother" colleges to the Harvard Houses...
...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...
Sculptor Smith's medals could be pigeonholed as surrealist, but so could some works from which they were descended: Gothic decoration, the imagery of Artist (The) William Blake (no kin to pseudonymous Author Blake), the Caprichos of Goya, the dream pictures of 15th-Century Artist Hieronymus Bosch. The Smith works were as full of symbolism as the Freudian moon is of green cheese. Of Elements Which Cause Prostitution Mr.Smith explained: "The land is cushioned -the bowl has the sponge-the fern has futility-the anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken...