Word: victorian
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...SORCERER. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players promise to transform the Agassiz Theatre into the parodied Victorian England of “The Sorcerer.” The duo’s first full-length operetta, also known as “The Elixir of Love,” follows “John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells” as he causes mayhem with his love potions in true Gilbert and Sullivan style. Though the show pokes fun at outdated Victorian values, the fresh and lighthearted score can still charm and entertain modern audiences...
...final site includes two Victorian structures—the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Baker House, HLS’s legal aid office—and Wyeth Hall, a six-story red-brick dormitory...
...this idealized notion of European TV as constantly resembling Cinemax at three in the morning. Well, I learned that it is indeed like that in continental Europe, but the daytime soft-core pornography never crossed the English Channel. Lest we forget, we Americans inherited all our Victorian notions of sexual repression from the motherland...
...level, the cultural attitudes regarding sex are fairly similar. Both campuses seem to reject Victorian sexual mores as outdated and oppressive. The major difference is that Harvard students have trouble finding productive outlets (beyond their T1 Internet cable) to channel these counter-cultural instincts. nd embrace a counter-cultural ethos. However, Harvard students seem to have trouble fulfilling this desire for free love. Everyone outside the Salient Editorial board is perfectly willing to transgress natural laws, but the problem is we can’t find anyone to transgress them with. Again, we recognize these sexual conventions are arbitrary social...
...English language was planted in South Asia, who knew it would bloom with such fecundity? From the riots of Salman Rushdie to the florid sagas of Vikram Seth and the humid prose of Arundhati Roy, much of the best subcontinental writing has embraced a hothouse style, the kind of Victorian grandness long forgotten by the English themselves. When the empire wrote back, it was never at a loss for words...