Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market system's enduring strengths is precisely its reliance on the profit motive which, like it or not, is a powerful human drive. To many idealists the primacy of the profit motive has long seemed to be a sanctification of selfishness that produces a brutalizing, beggar-thy-neighbor society. Victorian Moralist John Ruskin denounced "the deliberate blasphemy of Adam Smith: Thou shalt hate the Lord thy God, damn His laws, and covet thy neighbour's goods...
Editor Michele Slung offers a bright lineup of female sleuths dating from Victorian times to the 1940s. Aside from Mignon Eberhart and E. Phillips Oppenheim, the authors will be unfamiliar to all but cultists. Even the worst of them, though, retain a kind of campy charm. For if the paraphernalia of detection have not changed much over the past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics...
...four days last week, a small, red brick Victorian building on the fringe of London's seedy Pimlico district drew crowds of sightseers titillated by one of Britain's most sensational murder mysteries. Inside the coroner's tiny court on the first floor, a jury of six men and three women was hearing evidence of the brutal bludgeon murder last November of the nanny to a titled family and an attack on her employer, the Countess of Lucan, that put the countess in the hospital for a week (TIME, Nov. 25). Thirty-two witnesses, Lady Lucan among...
Byron's view prevailed. By tearing out passages from diaries and journals and keeping the lid on their less savory memories, Shelley's intimates created a marzipan myth to be consumed in Victorian parlors. The poet, so the story went, was only nominally a seducer, de facto bigamist and flaming revolutionary. In reality he was, as Matthew Arnold wrote, "an ineffectual angel...
Most of the women who did go on went to graduate school--Harvard Law had just opened to women, but the Business School was still closed to them--and got education degrees. "One became a teacher; it was very Victorian," Laskin says. Abigail Caplan Beutler, for example, who was the class bridge, marrying on graduation day, had majored in physics, but got a masters from Boston University's School of Education with the idea of getting a teaching job so her husband could go on for his doctorate. It was only later, in 1960, that she went back to school...