Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Attitudes and values about sexuality haven't changed as much as we think they have. Victorian notions of sexuality still have a powerful influence," says Allan M. Brandt, assistant professor of the history of science and medicine. Brandt studies the effects such attitudes have had in the past and applies his conclusions to the present, successfully bridging the gap from academia to public policy issues...
...Harvard team captured the Erwin H. Schell Trophy in a competition held at M.I.T. Meanwhile, Radcliffe won the Victorian Urn Trophy, in a competition which it hosted...
...women's teams participated at the Victorian Urn in Cambridge, but Radcliffe, with skippers Jane Fogg and Julia Trottman, easily outdid the competition. The Black and White finished the competition with an 18-point lead over Brown, and a 30-point bulge over Dartmouth. It was Radcliffe's second overall victory of the fall season...
Radcliffe has not won the Victorian Urn since 1982. This weekend's victory also ensures the team a spot in the Atlantic Coast...
...horror did not become a literary convention until the late 18th century, when the gothic novel described the exotic terrors of old feudal keeps. In the gaslight era, the supernatural took hold of the public imagination, and British authors quickly dominated the field. Their very names suggest creaking Victorian stairways, forbidden rooms and disembodied spirits: Montague Rhodes James, J.S. Le Fanu, Eden Phillpotts, Algernon Blackwood. In the U.S., an alcoholic and sickly journalist led readers down dark corridors that still echo in American and European fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was, wrote D.H. Lawrence, "an adventurer into the vaults and cellars...