Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could have been worse, Hesford says. "Actually, you'd be surprised. They had a very fully developed English department--courses like 'Victorian Prose Writers.' And it's not as dangerous as it might sound... But it's viewed with suspicion by the Israeli government as sort of a hotbed of Palestinian revolutionary thought." Hesford decided against Birzeit, he says, because he asked himself, "If you're over there, how do you get back?' Unless of course you want to spend your life in exile." He pauses, then adds, "But if nothing else came through...
Adam B. Ulam, the center's director and professor of Government, has an office in 106, at the middle of a long corridor on the first floor of 1737 Cambridge Street. The room resembles the kind of scholar's study that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...
This week, 186 years after John Adams was sworn into the job, the U.S. Vice President and his family will at last get an officially designated home of their own. It is Admiral's House, a three-story gabled and turreted white brick Victorian mansion of 33 rooms on Embassy row, 21/2 miles northwest of the White House. But the 82-year-old Admiral's House has proved to be something of a rusty boat since Congress captured it by Executive fiat from the Navy, which had used it since 1928 to quarter the families of the chiefs...
Harvard does have excellent facilities in two areas, crew and squash. The Harvard crew rows out of Newell Boathouse. Built around the 1890s, the Victorian-style edifice has lost much of its aristocratic splendor, although a semblance of its former elegance is still discernible...
Marriage Bed. She spent perhaps too much time in the library, and even by Victorian standards she was unusually repressed and naive. On the eve of her marriage to Edward Wharton, Edith, then 23, went to her mother to ask about what goes on in the marriage bed. Her mother looked at her with icy disapproval. "You've seen enough pictures and statues in your life," she replied. "Haven't you noticed that men are . . . made differently from women? You can't be as stupid as you pretend." On that subject she was, however, and the marriage...