Word: gothicized
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...eight months trying to answer. Angel, one of the top church sculptors, had been commissioned to carve Saint John for the central doorpost of Manhattan's slowly building Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which was originally designed to be Romanesque and is gradually growing up to be Gothic...
...Episcopalian himself, Angel has done sculpture for Manhattan's Roman Catholic St. Patrick's and Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Like most of his work, Angel's new eight-foot Saint John is 13th Century Gothic in style, but, says Angel, "I use all my knowledge of the human figure, so what we call Gothic is Gothic with a difference." The difference is sometimes too marked to miss. Like most attempts to recreate in one century what came naturally in another, Angel's work has more finish than feeling. It suffers from a kind...
...white-mustached John Angel has been making statues for the unfinished Cathedral more than 20 years. One of a tailor's ten children, he grew up in the British cathedral town of Exeter, entered a Gothic studio as an apprentice ornament-carver when he was 14. Says Sculptor Angel: "I never went to school; I'm an ignoramus...
...with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...
...will be the eighth start for the Varsity. The scheduled game with Boston College yesterday was frozen out, but a return match has been set tentatively for tomorrow afternoon, and will be played also in the Gothic highlands of Newton...