Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Independent booksellers of New England have organized an antiquarian bookfair that will go on Saturday and Sunday at Gutman Library, featuring goodies like children's books, Victorian literature, detective fiction, and miniature books. Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to8:30 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A $1.50 donation for admission will go to the library itself...
...find one around here that attracts you, Boston offers an interesting pair of Halloween balls. One is a very haughty-sounding Bicentennial affair at the Victorian Exhibit, costume or fancy dress required. At the Castle on Arlington St. near Park Square on the 30th, with a $10 donation at the door. Donation to what...
...tribute to Yeats. Similarly, for George Bernard Shaw, the poet or idealist changes nothing, not even himself. In Candida, the poet Marchbanks and the preacher/politician Morell--rivals for the protagonist's love--are each immured in a prison of words. Marchbanks, an intruder into Morell's apparently idyllic Victorian home, attacks the vacuity of the parson's Christian Socialist platitudes; but his own endless flights of romanticism are no better. Both forms of verbiage are equally foolish--and equally valid. Neither is, in Auden's words, "a way of happening," let alone an incitement to change...
Anyone who has ever crooned in a shower will get a tingle out of Amazing Grace-America in Song, a 90-minute special that many PBS stations will telecast on Wednesday night, Oct. 27. Mixing sea chanteys, Victorian parlor songs and cowboy laments, swinging from gospel to Cole Porter to Charles Ives to Billie Holiday, Producer-Director Allan Miller has created a musical mosaic that reflects the variety and vitality of American song...
...western tries to duplicate the rough edges of a folk ballad, placing Morgan's exploits in a context that is both romantic and social. Much time is expended depicting the primitive qualities of colonial justice, while government authorities are depicted, predictably, as brutal lunatics. Superintendent Cobham of the Victorian police (played with flush, fruity menace by Frank Thring) supervises Morgan's eventual capture and execution, then ships his head to an anatomy professor in Melbourne. The professor has a curious theory-he thinks Morgan could be half ape. The superintendent keeps Morgan's scrotum as a souvenir...