Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expectations) and Actor Charles Laughton. The corpse in the case is the British lower middle class, the people Novelist Arnold Bennett found when he lifted the rock of Victorian respectability...
...Victorian aunts had their own cure for the neurotic. "Fiddlesticks," they would cry, tapping a silver-headed cane firmly on the ground. "Just pull yourself together, dear, and you'll be all right." This outlook, combined with some Nietzschean notions about will power, is the essence of the psychological method practiced by Chicago's Dr. Abraham Low. Vienna-born Dr. Low, 63, who is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, heads a growing movement (2,000 members) called Recovery, Inc., and dedicated to a kind of correspondence-school psychotherapy...
Split personality seems to be the literary vogue this season. In A Garden to the Sea (TIME, April 19), Philip Toynbee split his hero four ways, mainly to tell an experimental love story. Marghanita Laski used the simpler, two-way, Jekyll & Hyde approach in The Victorian Chaise Longue (TIME, June 14). In The Bird's Nest, Novelist Shirley Jackson reverts to Toynbee's four-in-one split to document a tortuous case of mental illness...
...tightens the suspense screws on her plot, Author Laski also adds a shocker or two, e.g., poor Milly outrages her Victorian surroundings by bearing an illegitimate child. The final secret of whether Melanie ever makes her way back to the 20th century is a matter Author Laski deserves to share directly with her readers...
Chinese Gordon: The Story of a Hero, by Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson. A first-rate biography of the odd but dazzling fish who was Victorian England's shining knight (TIME...