Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard undergraduates go into Memorial Hall at least once before they graduate. Even those who skip "Heroes" and avoid a cappella concerts have to head over to the University's most prominent example of Victorian architecture come registration time...
Locating the student center in Memorial Hall will also make more efficient and fuller use of the building, considered the most beautiful example of late Victorian architecture at Harvard...
...Martin Stannard makes clear in this second and concluding volume of his brilliantly definitive biography, Waugh was a sad and even tragic figure. In his youth a dandified aesthete and party animal, he evolved into an eccentric, scowling, West Country squire who wore hideous tweed suits and wielded a Victorian ear trumpet like a snickersnee against enemies, real and imagined. That noli me tangere pose barely masked the inner Waugh: a self-lacerating loner who for a time, Stannard asserts, was certifiably schizophrenic. (The experience was transmuted in Waugh's strangest novel, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...
...first act is set in Victorian colonial Africa and revolves around the sexual tensions disrupting the "perfect" household of Clive and his wife Betty (Brain van Gorder). The casting in this play frequently crosses gender and racial lines, and in the first act this seems to indicate that Clive and his imperialistic patriarchal attempts to "tame" women and the Dark Continent have distorted the true natures of the other characters...
Meanwhile, Betty is fending off the advances of her children's governess Ellen (Vonnie Roemer), whom she eventually marries off to Bagley with advice that movingly highlights the Victorian woman's deprivation of sexual pleasure and knowledge. "Just keep still," she advises the bride to be, while knowing that even she is beginning to want more than that...