Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huge, dark, and ornate, Memorial Hall rules its triangle kingdom with a firm Victorian hand. Despite the abuse of words and weather, the Hall continues to stand regally as a reminder of Harvard students who died in the Civil...
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11:--David Owen opens innumerable Victorian closets in History 142b and finds an astonishing number of skeletons, to the accompaniment of laughter from an appreciative audience, in Sever 11. Disraeli, Gladstone, Churchill, and the rest pass in review in a fascinating study of the English and why they act the way they...
...affair takes place in one of those stuffy Victorian drawing rooms which playwrights thinks is characteristic of Long Island society, and Emanuel Gerald's sets are garish enough to bore even the most undiscriminating theatergoer by the time he sees them for two hours. But then they are characteristic of the play itself. Put them all together, or take them one by one: in any case, all you have is a series of two-line jokes on a subject which, by now, has been cowed into submission...
...wasted life. But Oblomov's only school has been the nursery of self-indulgence, and he cannot bring himself to graduate. He decides, elegantly, that he should have stood in bed. The responsibilities of marriage petrify him. He pleads lack of funds and postpones the date. He develops Victorian scruples about being seen unchaperoned with Olga...
When Gladstone first took his seat in the House of Commons (1833), the Victorian era was moving in, pushing back into history the last remnants of irreverent, aristocratic Whiggery, pushing forward the businessman. In faith, in morals, in background, in purse, the young Gladstone seemed every inch a new Victorian. How, then, did he become the most hated as well as the most adored English statesman of his century...