Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...income white neighborhoods. There are nearly 60,000 in Los Angeles, perhaps 20,000 in the San Francisco Bay area, about 12,000 in Phoenix, 15,000 on Chicago's North Side. Some 12,000 inhabit the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, almost half in shabby apartment houses and creaky Victorian houses near Minneapolis' Franklin Avenue, which cops and Indians alike call "the reservation...
Militant Protestants paraded with placards urging the state to CONTINUE DEVLIN'S UPBRINGING IN THE ARMAGH GAOL. Partisan Catholics punctuated her defense in Londonderry's squat Victorian courthouse with foot stomping and applause. Moderates on both sides feared a new outburst of violence when the trial of Bernadette Devlin, the 22-year-old British M.P. and civil rights firebrand, came to an end last week. To their relief, the fragile peace that has prevailed between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants since last August's rioting was preserved...
...Historian Crane Brinton, in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, predicted by 1970-decidedly prematurely -the start of "plain, unblushing repression of much that our Freudian age regards as irrepressible. Indeed a partial return to public and private Victorian decencies...