Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pictures of two Harvard boys leaving the Charles Street Jail. The MDC caught these two fellows racing each other down the Charles River on two chunks of ice during the spring thaw. One of them was me, the staid discoverer of improper sex at Harvard...I'm no Victorian...
...offbeat handsets is booming. Two companies in New York City account for most of a fast-moving retail and mail order business in rebuilt foreign antiques and reproductions, equipped with dials and plug-ins to fit a phone company jack (Jacqueline Kennedy has one on a 19th century Victorian table in her White House office). Also popular are American antiques-wood-cabinet wall phones and the stand-up type that went out in the late '30s, known in the telephone trade as "the Eliot Ness." Newest dodge for phone phonies: removing the transmitter from a bought phone...
...years, Life & Loves was a prime piece of erotica in intellectual and academic circles. After all, it was not merely dirty. Harris was a literary figure, an editor of some stature in late-Victorian London, a familiar of such wits as Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm and Bernard Shaw. Between beds, his book is studded with "As I said to Lord Asquith . . ." and intimate tidbits that every conscientious scholar should know about the private life of literary personages ranging from Thomas Carlyle to Guy de Maupassant. Harris' obsession with and clinical description of his mistresses' vital organs could...
...caricature was never really accurate. But it was never more misleading than when applied to John Keats, the one Romantic poet whose outward life it seemed most to resemble. Keats's life was a series of buffetings by a fate cruel enough to suit the most sentimental of Victorian preconceptions. He lost his father at eight, his mother at 14, his brother Tom at 23, and died himself of tuberculosis at 25. His appointed guardian, Tea Merchant George Abbey, hated him. Abbey apprenticed him to a doctor, tried to keep him from seeing his younger sister Fanny, and cheated...
...overripe pheasant." On another occasion, he gave John F. Kennedy a cue by exhorting the voters "not just to think you are going to get something out of government; think what you can do for your country." As an imaginative Home Secretary from 1957 to 1962, Rab trimmed "the Victorian whiskers" from the betting and licensing laws and was praised as warmly by Socialists as by his fellow...