Word: gothics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Christopher Gore "to build an enduring monument to preserve the memory of Massachusetts' former Governor and Senator, Christopher Gore." Allegedly designed after King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, the enduring monument, Harvard's new library, was built in a style euphemistically labeled by contemporaries as "Fourteenth Century Gothic...
...rarely visited the Trib's enormous city room, and when he did, he was often followed by his German shepherd dogs. From his huge, marble-topped desk in the Trib's Gothic tower, he bombarded his staff with memos signed "RRMcC." They ranged over thousands of subjects, from international political skulduggery to the most nonsensical trivia. "Everyone should be interested to know how hard a lobster pinches," the Colonel once scribbled. "Crabs, clams, oysters. This information should be easy to get. I suppose...
...Italian town (pop. 35,000) are lit by windowpanes of translucent alabaster and by the glitter and blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses the exuberant youth of the Christian church, shows that the Dark Ages knew glory...
...Second World War was still not over. The Polish Second Corps, for example, was fighting the Nazi armies in Italy, where, very shortly, it was to play a key role in breaking the Gothic Line, and all over Europe there were people who fought and died for the very things we ourselves were fighting for. But all that was overlooked. The only people who counted were in that little clique that surrounded a dying man who liked Falla...
Thus went the "Congo Canoemen's Mass." Its drumbeat did not seem out of place to the natives who crowded the mission church of St. Anne in Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. The church's curving Gothic arch resembled the silhouette of an outsized mud hut, and its lofty vaults and arches were modeled after palm trees. The altar was made of two rough boulders topped by a monolith and the simple carved benches resembled witch doctors' ritual chairs. With its glassless windows admitting light and air and its roof covered with brilliant emerald tiles, the church seemed...