Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found Burma a nation that has effectively buried its old colonial past but lost something of itself in the process. "Rangoon, once a great British-style city of banks and trading companies, now moves at a languid 'people's pace,' " reported Kraar. "The grand old Victorian buildings, now grubby and ghostlike, hover over wide, almost empty streets. Identical green and white signboards over nearly every shop proclaim 'People's Store'-though the Burmese people find very little indeed to buy there. Instead, they turn to the streets, where peddlers spread out on dingy cloths...
...with an electrical circular saw, which leaves curved lines, and look for nail holes plugged with plastic wood in places where a cupboard needs no nail at all. Then, says Grotz, there are the "cute little Early American pine three-drawer chests that are only as high as a Victorian commode." They are just that, with the lower doors removed and two drawers fitted into the space where the old thunder mugs were kept...
Prospect St. at night is magic. Fifteen Victorian mansions line the street, glowing gold from their windows. Princeton men in v-neck sweaters and blue button-down shirts walk down the sidewalk in groups of three or four. A few groups peel off at each building: Colonial, with its high pillars; Cap and Gown, with its Tudor facade; Ivy; Tower Cottage. It feels like someone should be humming "Going Back to Nassau Hall" in the background...
...that we would not change our policy on armed robbery. And evidently we are changing our policy on birth control. The usury laws may to some extent be a holdover from medieval economics; and some of the laws on prostitution, abortion and contraception were products of the Victorian era and reflect the political power of various church groups. One cannot even deduce from the existence of abortion laws that a majority of the voters, even a majority of enlightened voters, oppose abortion; and the wise money would probably bet that the things that we shall be forbidding in fifty years...
...unplanned flops (the Edsel) and galloping successes (the Mustang). What is more, any steel, aluminum or copper-industry executive who tried to raise prices this year-and got a jangling phone call from the White House for his trouble-knows that the tale about the government acting like a Victorian spinster is as tall...