Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Poet George William Russell was a young man in Victorian Dublin, he wrote a philosophic article under the pseudonym "Æon." The printer mangled it, and Æon came out Æ. For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong. Outdistanced as a poet by such contemporaries as Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats, Æ culled through his verses not long before his death (in 1935) and selected 124 that he hoped he might be remembered for. Last week his Selected Poems achieved the semiclassic permanence of republication in the Golden Treasury Series (Macmillan; $1.25), along with...
That it is impossible for the library authorities to put a stop to this defacement directly seems evident. Nevertheless, the walls should, in our opinion, be daily washed, even at the cost of added janitorial service. It does not necessitate Victorian moralism or feminine squeamishness to regard these vulgarities outrageous. Perchance, a visiting dignitary may some day be inspecting Lamont and feel the need of relief. That he should be faced with vile and obscene drawings, unworthy of the name of Harvard, is an infuriating disgrace. The library authorities should see to it that a relentless erasure war is waged...
...stairs and though they may view cavorting bovines on the walls instead of grump Bostonians frequenters of the Harkness dining room must still endure trays of the middle plasticene era. These are not the square old clothes and give variety only the Union renowned for its moose heads and Victorian decor can countenance that but the round type with low partitions. Despite all the modern conveniences that Gropius can offer graduate students still must watch out for vinegar in their bread pudding...
...Britain's government schools were set up in 1870, when the tides of Victorian secularism were running high. The most that the secularists would allow were optional classes, left entirely in the hands of local education boards. As a result, most religious instruction became a matter of indifference. Few teachers bothered to train themselves for it, and few students bothered to take it. As in the U.S., freedom of religion came to mean almost no religion...
...original form"), Uncle Remus ("when read aloud"), and Tom Sawyer ("despite its Negro stereotypes"). But for some of the other classics, it holds no brief at all. By last week it had placed on its Index: ¶ Black Beauty-"Poorly written . . . Black Beauty is more a mid-Victorian spinster than a horse...