Word: edwardianism
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...moved upward in a culture now more than ever devoted, in a time of expanding income and leisure, to the luxuries both provide. Good grooming is only part of it. The new American male also goes to the opera, masters a few French phrases, perhaps buys an elegant Edwardian suit and tours the Continent-where many of the latest styles, including long hair, originated. Good grooming is the most visible part of it; any investment, however steep, pays off just beyond the hair stylist's door. It is worth noting that, since 1953, the U.S. male has spent more...
...rumor that the Beatles wanted to rename themselves "Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and that the album cover depicts a wake at the grave of that old and outdated group called the Beatles. The new name stirs up nostalgic images of a group of old Edwardians seated on a bandstand in military uniforms playing brass marches in a simpler age of long summer afternoons. The Beatles may also know that the Edwardian age was one of violent idealistic movements, once described as "Britain's national nervous breakdown," and much closer our own age than most people realize...
...performers who dress up in Edwardian band costumes to comment on modern times? First of all, when you talk about the Beatles, you mostly mean John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who write nearly all the words and tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey in Of Human Bondage (1964), Somerset Maugham's classic story of unrequited love in Edwardian England...
...this book, he sets out to tell the tale of a cuckoo American millionaire's efforts to steal an 18th century paperweight from an English manor house. What he also does in his incomparable way is to prove that, for a fellow who started effervescing back in the Edwardian era, he has a lot of bubble left in him yet. In fact, his fans will find that this book leaves P.G. about where he was before: one of the funniest writers of this and bygone times...