Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Freshmen Glee Clubs all massed on the stage. First, Princeton's Old Nassau, with its curious arm-cross-chest motion that looks like so many meaculpas; then, with a theoretical tear in each eye, Believe . . .oops . . . Fair Harvard. And as the last strains of that fine old Victorian melody faded into our collective memory, one could almost hear a little voice accompanying us into the cold night: Goodbye, Columbus . . . goodbye, Columbus . . . goodbye...
...FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Darling, now bring Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel vividly to the screen, with solid performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller powerfully projects his own sense of exile, while demonstrating that he has the credentials of a major novelist, in this tragicomedic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family...
...MOTHER'S HOUSE. This splendid, moody film takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture in a London suburb, where seven orphaned children cover up the death of their mother and try to maintain their old life with a mixture of love of one another and fear of the outside world...
...analogy. Last spring, when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared at a picket line of striking television employees in order to show that he would not cross it, Buckley wrote in his column: "It was a nostalgic demonstration of an old faith, rather as if Marlene Dietrich, emulating the Victorian ladies of yesteryear, were to faint upon hearing an obscenity." Buckley summed up the attitude of Texas Republicans facing the approaching presidential election: "The dilemma is how to be, at once, both a winner and a Republican. That is the lot of the woman, as La Rochefoucauld observed, who is at once...