Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither are the bone-weary hackers who trudge out of Wean Hall at dawn's first light. They repair to dorm rooms and Victorian houses in quiet neighborhoods to spend the day in owl-like slumber, skipping both meals and classes. As dusk descends, they will meander back to the computer rooms, returning to the fluorescent comfort of typed instruction and programmed response, ready to hack again...
...current century is her philosophic obsession. Born into a world of hope and self-confidence, she watched the idealism of the 19th century dissolve in war and recongeal into the recrimination and self doubt of the 20th. In contrast to the proud and noble self-image of the Victorian man, "our self-image looks more like Woody Allen or a character from Samuel Beckett," Tuchman declared in her 1980 Jefferson lecture. "It is a paradox of our time in the West that never have so many people been so relatively well off and never has society been more troubled...
...setting is not Victorian England but a modern university in Ontario a cloistered enclave of Renaissance scholarship housing characters whose somber public lives belie the sensational reality of their private existences Maria, a graduate student who insists on interpreting all events in terms of Rabelais and Parcelsus, narrates half the chapters. The others are voiced by the Reverend Simon Dar-court, a professor of religion who is writing a series of meditations on the modern university...
...Burgess's eyes, Freud is a Victorian Job, plagued by the doctrinal defections of Carl Jung, Otto Rank and his own daughter Anna. The therapist's love of cigars, which contribute to the carcinoma that kills him, is analyzed by Jung. The Swiss tells Freud's mother that Sigmund's smoking is "sheer devotion ... to you, gnadige Frau...
Sert sought to bring "a new creativity" to the Harvard campus. Huson Jackson, a business partner of Sert, said yesterday. "He was not content to continue building in the old Georgian and Victorian style," Jackson said. As part of this effort. Sert brought the prominent French modernist architect Charles Le Corbusier to Harvard in 1963 to design the Carpenter Center, the tamed designer's only American work...