Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holcombe stops teaching Gov. 1b this spring after 30 years, and the lecture leaves the list of unusual talks given annually by professors in the College. These lectures, ranging in subject from glass-enclosed Victorian halls to hunting sea otters, are often remembered by students when the rest of the course is just a dim recollection...
Owen has given it in History 142b for over ten years to illustrate English Victorian tastes during the mid-19th Century. In 1851, England gave an exhibition of furniture and interior decoration, and housed it in an enormous hall made entirely of steel ribs and plates of glass...
European students do branch out into art and music, but they do so on their own. And "these amenities are cultivated, not because they are real knowledge, but as badges of class and status ... like needle point among Victorian women . . . Hence the careful student of Europe today discovers, with a horror . . . that the so-called culture of Europe does not go very deep. The American often leaves his campus still vulgar ... but we do have the opportunity ... of impressing upon him the glimmerings of a notion that learning is not something apart from life...
Adams is divided into three living units. Westmorly and Randolph are remnants of the early 20th century gold Coast. They feature the twilight luxury of large, high-ceilinged rooms and the out-dated Victorian living that provides a bathtub, but no shower...
What the film lacks in mystery it makes up in other ways, particularly the performance of Jean Simmons, who gives a fascinating exhibition of mid-Victorian beauty and charm. The Rank Studios seem to have hit on a laudable policy of casting first-rate actors in supporting roles. This, together with the skillful contrast between the mystery and the gay exposition background, add considerably to the film's quality...