Word: gothics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting American, life at New College seems to be a curious combination of the very primitive and very elegant. Certainly the 14th Century architecture is as uncomfortable to dwell in as it is beautiful to look at. Through the magnificent arches, behind the Gothic windows, lie dark little rooms with gloomy, yellow wallpaper. Some of them have no hot water, and where this is so, their occupants have to use a great church-like building that houses nothing but baths, rows and rows of them...
...sweating out a degree and fighting to smother a lower-middle-class background with the correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic façade, where no memher has won any academic distinction since the 13th century...
...less than a simple climber. He is an empty man, one of nature's nihilists. For every serious matter he has a tweeded pose and a hollow, echoing gibe. He even sneaks into one or another of Oxford's numerous, empty churches, but nothing happens in the gothic twilight...
Shadows on the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...