Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victorians, because of their tradition, aren't always very attractive. In fact, oftentimes they are a down-right bore. So Mr. Merrill has cast aside play-writing convention, and has plopped his 1856 Victorians right into the midst of Czarist Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their ways--and then into the midst of Nixon California (1956) where people apparently are. This is achieved through supernatural power--specifically, the will of the sexy Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, who has given her Victorian lover-loafer the gift of immortality. We follow him through the three ages into...
...carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful to have seen the last of a "damned, canting, unmasculine, unbawdy age." Mary, ten years his senior, outlived him by 13 years...
...Kirkland, who died in 1810 (James Walker and Thomas Hill, the exceptions, repose elsewhere); and most important, we remained untouched by Mount Auburn's natural beauty which others have so enjoyed. No Euripides, no Ernest Hemingway. We just couldn't appreciate this gross slyvan glade speckled with gray Victorian masonry that the prospectus so proudly called "the City of the Dead." But then it was raining pretty hard.Edwin Booth, legendary figure of the American stage, lies not far from Spruce...
...vast number of Victorian sub-intrigues and love affairs make a coherent summary of the plot impossible. The spiral staircase is in the old Warren House, run by Professor Warren (George Brent) and owned by old Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) who is dying upstairs, attended by Helen the dumb maid (Dorothy McGuire). She cannot talk. When young Dr. Parry arrives to attend to old Mrs. Warren, he falls in love with Helen. Then the professor's step-brother, Stephen Warren, turns up, and young ladies commence dying, among them Stephen's own girl friend, Blanche (Rhonda Fleming...
...Cleveland, as coolly respectable as Florida, and unexpectedly flamboyant; Monday, the lush, velvety valleys, red barns and wind-stroked corn fields of Wisconsin; Tuesday, the tall towers of Minneapolis, rising sharply from the prairie and gleaming in the warm sun; old, mellow St. Paul with its distinguished piles of Victorian brick and stone on Summit Avenue, where Scott Fitzgerald lived...