Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There, Coles found that the widely held conception of black families as inevitably disorganized simply does not stand up. Among middle-class blacks, he reports, the typical family is "much like the Yankee Victorian kind?very strict, very concerned with getting ahead." In his study of Northern blacks, Coles makes other stereotype-breaking observations. He reports, for example, that lower-class blacks have family structures similar to prosperous suburbanites; in both cases the father is away from home much of the time, and his absence is not necessarily any more damaging to the black child than to the white...
According to a new plan drawn up by Britain's Department of Health and Social Security, all of the nation's 116 mental hospitals-many of them grim Victorian fortresses-will be shut down over the course of the next 25 to 30 years. As for the 116,000 patients, they will be temporarily maintained in small psychiatric units in local general hospitals, then rehabilitated through outpatient care, either at home or in clinics. Teams of doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers will be set up in each town to smooth the integration of former mental patients into...
...last week of 1971 was typical of life in the dour, grimy Victorian cities of the North that are a battleground in the conflict between the British army and the outlawed terrorist Irish Republican Army. There were bombings in Belfast, Londonderry, Enniskillen and the village of Rostrevor. where the I.R.A. destroyed the country house of Ivan Neill, Speaker of the Ulster House of Commons. (Neill and his wife were away...
...Georg Solti, today's top conductor of Wagner, makes the opera brilliant and unabashedly grand. As Venus, Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig seethes with eroticism, suggesting a world of impossible sexuality. Soprano Helga Dernesch as Elisabeth, Wagner's virginal opposite to Venus, is the perfect embodiment of pinched Victorian purity. Best of all is Tenor René Kollo, a German pop singer metamorphosed into a Heldentenor, who sings Tannhäuser with a gleaming tone, power, and a dramatic force unequaled since Lauritz Melchior...
...Donald Barthelme. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. Fantasist Barthelme goes through his own looking glass and comes back with a young Alice named Mathilda, some elegant chatter, "a hithering thithering Djinn," and a Chinese lunch that includes sweet and sour ice cream. Most of the pictures-cutouts culled from Victorian-style engravings -are too static for children, though the storm scene (from Gustave Doré's illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) is splendid...