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...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 Both campuses seem to reject Victorian sexual mores as outdated and oppressive.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...
Craig Newmark runs his empire from the first-floor parlor of a tidy Victorian-style flat in San Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place...
Buckley authored several books during his lifetime, including The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture (1951), Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet (1960) and The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse Since...