Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetic ictus," Untermeyer dropped out of a family jewelry business to write poems and later became the editor of more than 50 poetry anthologies, which helped establish such writers as Robert Frost and Amy Lowell. As critic, biographer, satirist and lecturer, Untermeyer helped lead the literary revolt against Victorian gentility and later became one of the most energetic public advocates of the art form he called "an effort to express the inexpressible in terms of the unforgettable...
Edgar Johnson's two-volume biography, published in 1952, was the first long, authoritative look at Dickens' life in 80 years; it revived scholarly interest in the once derided Victorian novelist and helped spur what has now become an avalanche of academic criticism. Through it all, common readers have simply remained enchanted by Dickens' indestructible magic. Johnson's new abridgment of his biography, judiciously cut in half and stripped of footnotes and other such paraphernalia, is intended especially for them...
Harris' intention, to debunk the old Victorian "onwards and upwards" view of cultural evolution, is admirable, though hardly rare today. But the book fizzles to a rather banal conclusion--"In life, as in any game whose outcome depends on both luck and skill, the rational response to bad odds is to try harder." For the news that our culture is by no means the first one to face a crisis threatening its whole survival may console those who are comforted in adversity by company (though the companions in this instance are all dead) but otherwise there seem...
...have not ruined the whole movie. Joslin, who has been making films since he was 14, has inserted so many distractions, veering from the direct path so often in the movie, that he has succeeded in making a totally different and seemingly unintentional statement about homosexuality: for anyone Victorian enough to think of gay men as sexual deviants, he has shown the gay man having a productive, normal life. Joslin himself is a teacher at Hampshire College in Amherst...
Barbara Seaman, author of Free and Female, goes further: "The backlash is against casual sex because a lot of people were hurt. It was as if there was a train gradually carrying us away from Victorian morality, but then suddenly in the '60s and '70s the train became a runaway, and a lot of passengers were injured. Now the brakes are starting to be repaired...