Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young, who at one point dismissed the Cuban presence in Africa as "a stabilizing influence." Yet by implication, Brzezinski's harsh words could also have been aimed indirectly at Vance, whose expressions of Administration concern over Soviet and Cuban activity in Africa had been phrased with an almost Victorian gentility...
...describing the "Japaneseness" of common life, the artists (most of whose names have perished) devised a kind of visual equivalent to the long social descriptions in Victorian novels. What the genre screens lack in iconic profundity, they make up for in their beguiling chatter of incident and their unfailing decorative sense. Priests, archers, race jockeys, carpenters, nobles, swordsmen, dancing girls, cooks, vegetable sellers, water carriers, lackeys, Kabuki actors, fishermen-the cast of characters is wide, embracing most of the classes and occupations in Japanese society-seen from the detached eyeline of upper-class patronage. The intimations of sympathy with underdogs...
...course there were lots of invitations back and forth." In many ways, at least socially, her college experience did not seem that different from high school--whether this is due simply to the fact that Bolster was still living with her parents, or because she was beset by Victorian college rules that rendered Radcliffe something of a glorified girls' boarding school. At the Anne Radcliffe Buffet this week, the alumnae will sing a ditty composed of the myriad rules contained in the little red book with which every freshman was expected to become familiar--a world of structure reduced...
...sentimentalizes virtue, just as Chaplin did in the soppier passages of his own work. As the documentary makes clear, Chaplin himself aspired all his life to the kind of stability this stiff youth aspires to. In his marriage to Oona O'Neill, which produced a family of Victorian dimensions, Chaplin finally found it. On the other hand, as three decades of scandalized headlines made clear, he was a boulevardier as dandified, as natty, as Menjou is here. Chaplin invests this character with real charm and style, again hoping for understanding...
...small conceits of her humdrum characters with a tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature 1896-1919) and a biographer (T.H. White...