Word: edwardianism
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...lady's parlor. True, his new 15-part Masterpiece Theater presentation, a joint venture of the BBC and TIME-LIFE Television, has several things in common with its award-winning and much-beloved predecessor. Chief among these are intelligence and taste. The series is as handsomely produced, the Edwardian settings and costumes as lush and authentic, as any devotee of 165 Eaton Place could possibly wish. But Louisa Leyton, the heroine of The Duchess of Duke Street, would never pass muster with Hudson or Mrs. Bridges. She is impertinent, aggressive, and, worst of all, neither keeps her peace nor knows...
...Edwardian England, "there was no escape for a woman except to marry the least odious man the family proposed," Anita Leslie, author of "Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill," told an audience of 80 last night at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...care for something more civilized, then take a few steps across Mass. Ave. and you'll find yourself across the Atlantic and in the Edwardian England of Bernard Shaw. The First Parish Church presents Love Among the English, a bouble-bill of Shavian one-acters. The plays portray battles between the sexes as only Shaw can portray them...
DIED. Benjamin Sonnenberg, 77. public relations wizard whose clients once included Philip Morris, CBS and Samuel Goldwyn; of a heart attack; in New York City. A young immigrant who became head of his own public relations firm in the 1920s, the walrus-mustached Sonnenberg dressed like an Edwardian, cultivated the rich and powerful, and lived in a style most of his clients envied. In his 37-room, antique-filled mansion on Manhattan's Gramercy Park, he held lavish soirées at which he flourished as raconteur and keeper of secrets, wheeler-dealer and patron of intellectuals. Sonnenberg once...
...four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose a different sort of test. An Edwardian dandy who wore silk ties from London's Burlington Arcade, he took a vow of poverty as a workingman's Anglican priest...