Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college professor. Whether youth is more or less promiscuous than it used to be is a matter of disagreement. Fact is that it is less showy about sex. Whatever its immoralities, it commits them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt. In that sense, it is far less childish than its parents were. As a whole, it is more sober and conservative, but in individual cases, e.g., the recent dope scandals, it makes Flaming Youth look like amateurs...
...obverse is also true. There are millions of Britons who have been taught to revile the consequences of the harsh Victorian economy, and who are convinced that the Tory aim is to restore the privileges of the governing class...
Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement have a striking similarity. Last Week, in a talk over the BBC's polysyllabic Third Program, Critic Lancaster charged that both schools rode their horses too hard...
Fettered by 77 years of Victorian morality, Radcliffe was rudely awakened last night when 13 Briggs Hall hoydens stormed the Cabot jolly-up. This typical Cabot Hall girl (top) was quoted as saying "I always knew what kind of people lived on the other side of the quad." The cause of the invasion was a painting called "Lower Depths" by Hortense Walpurgisnacht '55 depicting the average Briggs girl. It was quickly torn down by the invaders...
...theatre people--on the undergraduate, faculty, and alumni levels--can back up their architectural plans with a financial program, Harvard drama may yet emerge from the Victorian gloom of Sanders and the chilling courtyard of Fogg into a newer, more comfortable arena...