Word: gothicized
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...thorough use of the Gothic style will characterize the 1934 Red Book in its drawings, manner of writing and printing, according to an announcement made yesterday by its chairman, Theodore Chase...
...continue the Gothic motif, printed capitals will be in Priory type. A prologue and epilogue, written in the manner of Chaucer, have been planned by the literary board. Another feature will be a 300-line poem "The Rape of the Mop", by an anonymous contributor of the Class of 1934 which is done in Pope's style. The poem satirizes incidents in the lives of various freshmen this year in a humorous...
...minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music of Gothic design and Apocalyptic splendor the audience was privileged to behold the strange struttings, posings, leapings, of a man at the base of an elevation upon which and about which were grouped seven maidens in red tights. This performance was a caricature and profanation -unintended, of course, but none the less a profanation...
...limit to its innovations. Under the inspiring genius of James Gamble Rogers, the new Yale library was designed to include: (L) A cathedral of the English decorated period. (2.) A group of Tudor pavilions, loosely connected. (3.) A cloister, (4.) A court with details of: a. An Italian Gothic or Spanish arcade. b. An Elizabethan house. (5.) A central book tower armored with extremely heavy masonry under Romanesque inspiration, pierced by Early English lancet windows. (6.) Interiors designed with elaborate vaulting, Tudor bosses, medieval roof-painting, and furniture of Jacobean influence. (7.) A room in early Colonial style. (8.) Certain...
...view. But in attacking the artificiality in the building, the author of the "Nation" article becomes involved himself in a labyrinth of purely artificial distinctions. It certainly is only a diseased sort of academic mind which could object violently to inclusions in the same structure of rooms in Gothic, Renaissance, and Colonial styles per se. Certain juxtapositions could be aesthetically bad. But it is absurd to suppose that decorations of the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries are necessarily inharmonious...