Word: medievalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Manhattan audience: "If you wish to pray or if you wish to sit in silent meditation in a quiet corner and have music of words, you will get it from this poet. But if you want clarity on human issues, he's out - he's zero . . .antidemocratic . . medievalist . . . royalist . . . and so close to Fascist that I'm off him, to use a truck driver's phrase. And we've got to consider the truck drivers in the present hour, rather than the intellectuals...