Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist, little-heeded prophet of a return to the religious and political patterns of the Middle Ages, death came in the fullness of faith last week (in Boston...
...little eloquent evangelist, who produced big eloquent structures, Architect Cram lived scarcely more than bodily in the 20th Century. His intense spiritual life was in "the 13th, greatest of centuries," when the faith of a united Christendom bloomed in stone cathedrals from the hard soil of feudal Europe. More than any other one person Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival in U.S. architecture...
...Unitarian minister, Cram was converted to Anglo-Catholicism as a young man, visualized a reunion of all Christian creeds under one church. He was so attached to the medieval way of life that nearly all his voluminous writings (My Life in Architecture, The End of Democracy) were concerned with his vision of its resurgence. His dream of the neo-medieval future included: a return of self-sufficient walled towns; a return of craftsmen's guilds; abolition of mass production; abolition of gunpowder, the printing press, the combustion engine; "return to the land"; a semi-monarchical political setup...
Among the famed U.S. structures Cram designed or helped design are Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at West Point and Princeton University, Pittsburgh's $4,000,000 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location...
Died. Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist; in Boston...