Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belatedly, the flapper is beginning to flourish in Russia. Called chuvikha (slang for female), she dabbles in sex and tipples vodka, cares more about fashions than factories. Russian cartoons criticize her rebelliousness, lampoon her fickleness. With heavy Victorian moralizing, the press points out the tragedies of good girls gone wrong. Stimulated rather than appalled by all this attention, the chuvikhi lap it up. Last week they had another heroine...
This romantic novel preserves, as if in amber, all the forgotten joys of Victorian fiction. Here again are such stately nouns as provender and ablutions, adverbs like anew and perchance, adjectives like ruinated or commonsensical, once invaluable conjunctives like albeit. There are long majestic strings of rhetorical questions-"But why should sorrow be always creeping in upon joy? Why should it pierce him and find him out in this dear, beautiful place into which he had been wafted so mysteriously?" The plot-a 19th century version of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde-is every bit as lurid...
...performed a similar service for Sir Arthur, who died in 1944 at the age of 80. In her Gothic conclusion, Author du Maurier is inventive enough, but her sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian master could recreate such Quiller-Couch lines as "This most ancient cirque of Castle Dor, deserted, bramble-grown, was the very nipple of a huge breast in pain, aching for discharge...
...Behind Victorian Walls. I.C.I, for four months secretly wooed Courtaulds before news of the merger negotiations leaked from behind I.C.I.'s massive Victorian walls six weeks ago. Since then talks have followed a tortuous path as the two bargained for advantage...
...immense assurance of the age proved the key to its immense achievement. Sir Charles Petrie provides no such brief, brilliant survey as does G. M. Young's Victorian England. But if The Victorians' outlines are fairly wayward, its details are often engaging. And parts of it go farther than usual afield-to Victorian Ireland and Scotland, for example. Prostrated by the terrible famine of the '40s, Ireland became so needy that even the highborn stole food at the Lord Lieutenant's parties, while the people seethed and periodically struck out. Ireland, too, suffered from the Queen...