Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently in Melbourne, Miss Goolagong pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the year by defeating the world's première woman tennis player, Mrs. Margaret Court, 7-6, 7-6, for the Victorian Women's Singles title. Evonne then went on to whip Betty Stove of The Netherlands 6-1, 6-4, for the New Zealand championship. With Mrs. Court retiring after this season, Evonne has blossomed as the prime pretender to her throne. Mrs. Court herself said, "I think, at last, I have found an Australian to take my place...
...made many enemies among academic liberals. The image of the bold young college president standing up to the forces of intolerance has been replaced, in the eyes of many, by an image of a tight-lipped, uncommunicative old man, alienated from younger faculty and students, with a mid-Victorian conception of the role of the academic community. Probably neither image is true: Pusey, after all, is only human. But it is interesting to trace the metamorphosis, to look back into the origins of Pusey's increasing alienation from all but a few close friends in Massachusetts Hall...
...celebration on the night of his election was the only spontaneous one I ever saw in Jersey City. But though fear diminished, the System, with all its involuted roots, survived and flourished. How could it be otherwise? I will believe it has ended only when the great, greasy, Victorian city hall turns into an opera house and ward leaders become crusaders for ecology. As my grandmother used to say (she, like Mr. Kenny, had her own little adage): "We live in hope and we die in despair...
...world that thinks of faith in terms of "crisis" and churches in terms of "embattled," the Salvation Army seems as foursquare and unchanging as the crisp Victorian bonnets still worn by its ladies. It is almost as if Norman Rockwell had painted the scenes on the mind. Bright-smiling women, their cheeks pinked only with the flush of zeal, ladling out free dinners in a Skid Row mission. Clear-eyed men in high military collars, tootling on flügelhorns and euphoniums on chilly street corners. A brisk song, a quaint sermon. A bunk for the stumbling drunk. Even that...
...defensive, and nowhere more seriously-or ironically-than in its home country of Great Britain. General William Booth, its founder, was a rebel-a onetime pawnbroker's apprentice and Methodist preacher who abandoned the class-conscious churches of his day to preach salvation in the desolate slums of Victorian England. His "church" was a revolutionary religious body-a consciously designed "army" complete with uniforms and "Articles of War," dedicated to feeding and caring for the poor, exposing social injustice and lobbying for reform legislation. Now, a century later, the organization itself is under fire for being both authoritarian...