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Word: victorian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILLAIS AND THE RUSKINS, by Mary Lutyens. The odd marriage of the Victorian critic and esthete is given an enlightened going-over by a British biographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...intimacy starts with the catalogue which gives a full, personal account of Winthrop's life. It makes good if somehow sad reading--the story of a quiet Victorian son of an old New England family, his secluded life and his single passion for collecting...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Winthrop at Home | 2/4/1969 | See Source »

MiLLAIS AND THE RUSKINS, by Mary Lutyens. The odd marriage of the Victorian critic and esthete is given an enlightened going over by a British biographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Mumford's critics have since portrayed him as an implacable foe of technology, a relic of the Victorian age who prattles mindlessly about how automobiles and jet-planes will be the doom of us all. Mumford himself finds it "hilariously funny that people think I despise technology." He doesn't: he wanted to be an electrical engineer before he set off on his writing career. It is just that while most people uncritically accept applied science for the wealth it creates, Mumford has remained an unswerving humanist, asking where man fits...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Lewis Mumford | 1/27/1969 | See Source »

...women were predominantly Indian-Stone Age girls with few of the hopes or hang-ups of their white Victorian Age sisters. In most tribes, premarital sex was common (and was sometimes encouraged as a practical check against the cuckolding of married warriors by unmarried braves when the husbands were afield), and the Indian girl usually displayed a hearty appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex and the Single Squaw | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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