Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What is to be done?" was not the name of a magazine in late Victorian England. Instead, it was the question the middle class were asking about the poor. Some spokesman suggested ignoring the problem, but others claimed this would only make the revolutionary rumblings in the poor East End of London louder. Some said to indulge the poor but others argued that this would only make the working classes' tendency to indulge themselves worse. The solution everyone finally agreed upon was reform. The middle class would instill the poor with their own morality, making the whole society a mirror...
...PROBLEM OF THE POOR" provided the main drama for the middle class of late Victorian England. To ignore the poverty in the middle of their riches would only bring the rumblings of working-class revolution closer to home. To indulge those who had themselves ignored the middle class doctrine of self-improvement would only encourage their own tendency to gratify themselves. The only answer that remained was reform. If the middle class was to save society from the touch of the "undeserving" poor, the sole solution was to save the "deserving" poor by recreating them in a middle class image...
...detox process case," Humes says, adding that the medical and legal professions in the U.S. find themselves in the midst of a 40-year-old "blunder" on the issue of recognizing cannabis as a legitimate medicine. Buttressing his contentions, Humes cites the 1893 Indian Hemp Commission Report published in Victorian Britain, that attests to the usefulness of cannabis in treating ailments ranging from menstrual cramps to migraine headaches...
...clowns and aerialists will no longer live on promises: in The Honourable Schoolboy they jostle and clamor for the reader's attention. Fieldmen, office workers, a parade of journalists and reprobates (The Honourable Schoolboy finds the two synonymous), half-castes and Orientals give the book the richness of a Victorian novel of manners...
...October 27, wants to restore the timeless story of the artist who chiselled away at the form of woman, only to discover he loved the substance beneath, to its Edwardian home. By presenting Shaw's play, which was first produced in London in 1913 as a reaction to Victorian morals, Bloomfield hopes to present, a picture of what Edwardian England was really like. The result should be better than any Henry Higgens ever got from Eliza--pure entertainment...