Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students will find it impossible to conduct efficient and useful research on sexuality as long as this neo-Victorian sensibility prevails on the Human Subjects Committee. The committee should recognize that undergraduates are capable of producing valuable scholarship on sexuality and allow us to responsibly conduct the necessary research...
When a public forum like the editorial page of a somewhat enlightened newspaper such as The Crimson becomes the site for disciplining the already marginal voices of campus gays and proscribing for them more acceptable mores (read here also the word "Victorian," or even "Catholic") in place of some invented stock of immorality they have conferred upon us, one can only wonder about its fairness and question the objectivity of its "official positions...
Your crude accusations and failure to even ask about and report on any constructive suggestions we might have seems to perpetuate some perverted Victorian ethic. Together with your reminder that we "damage [our] efforts to win much-deserved support," I am left wondering how you suggest we take on this issue...
...QUINCUNX by Charles Palliser (Ballantine; $25). At 788 pages, this first novel seems designed for a more leisurely age. It was. The author's faithful pastiche of Victorian fiction -- with its careful plotting and moral punctiliousness -- miraculously springs to life...
Homophobia will not be defeated by Victorian morality and interpretations which ignore the social context in which events occur. Sex in bathrooms is picayune in comparison with the more substantial issues of harassment and public humiliation. This incident cannot be understood or examined by itself because it reflects a much larger cultural dilemma--a dilemma which we cannot fail to recognize...