Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S operetta H.M.S. Pinafore has been done countless times by many different kinds of companies. Although the passing of time has drained it of political and social satire, the gushing Victorian libretto and lively score still produces a good comic opera...
What does a very funny writer do whose laughter is always choking into a retch? Among other stratagems, Wilson has tried to revive the well-made Victorian novel (see The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot). He has sketched portraits of the very old and the very young (Late Call...
...years after his murder in a bloody military coup, the memory of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem last week stirred a curious nostalgia in Saigon. About 3,000 Diem supporters marched to the city's Victorian cathedral to attend a memorial service, then moved on to a nearby cemetery where Diem lies buried under an inconspicuous concrete slab. Gongs tolled. Drums thumped. Buddhist monks intoned prayers. Two Catholic bands played the national anthem...
...novelist could improve upon Richard (Golk) Stern's inventory of what Merriwether has to lose. The Stern Cambridge is full of 90-year-old gabled and bay-window-bellied houses, just a gentlemanly stroll from the Square's latest Marx brothers festival. In a hundred Victorian parlors like the Merriwethers', attractive parents and children play recorders and sing lieder or Cole Porter. Leather editions on subjects like Provencal poetry decorate the walls. Pedigreed dogs, knowledgeably named in Russian or even Japanese, bunk into a birch-log fire. There is a golden glow of "we": husbands and wives...
...like him, could "kill for love." When he discovers their similarity, she gains his respect. He removes her poisoned glass of wine with as skillful a subterfuge as he used to introduce it. After he is tried and convicted, he attacks his accusers in a powerful but restrained Victorian style...