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Public & Private Man. In Dickens, the Victorian world came face to face with genius in its most overwhelming form, approaching the borders of madness and self-destruction. "No gentleman" was the well-bred Victorian's verdict on Dickens-confirmed when his home broke up because of his passion for Actress Ellen Ternan. But Thackeray was a gentleman-"as polished as a steel mirror and as cold," "a natural swell," a Platonic lover who politely bowed himself out of his passion for a married woman when her husband objected. In public, Thackeray came to represent everything that Dickens derided...
With a matter-of-factness bred of wartime blitz experience, trackside residents were on the job administering first aid before the first ambulances groped their way to the terrible scene. The injured and dying were given first aid in kitchens and parlors as families worked together through the night, trying to rescue victims, many of whom were irrevocably trapped in the twisted steel. In a public bath, rows of bodies were laid out under blankets; under one white sheet stood a bucket containing a head and three legs. Hour after hour, the casualties were totted up in hospitals and mortuaries...
...Scribner's Monthly for July, 1876, Horace E. Scudder wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor of enthusiasm is openly, or by implication, voted a vulgar thing...
...seven, and not infrequently 10 to 15. Too many programs have taken too many years simply because faculty members and the graduate office have failed to give hardheaded advice at the right time, have shied away from making their students work hard enough, and have generally thought a well-bred air of amateurishness more gentlemanly and becoming than down-to-earth efficiency...
...Presley disk hit second place on Billboard's authoritative top-tunes listing in its second week on the chart, and by last week Victor claimed to have shipped 2,000,000 copies (total Presley sales of single disks so far: a staggering 28 million). The movie-bred lyrics of Jailhouse Rock (see CINEMA) suggests a powerful argument for penal reform, but no clues to the record's whopping success...