Word: victorian
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...birth of this brand of theater essentially marked the death of public theater in England from the end of the Restoration period until the Victorian era. Rather than trying to maintain its appeal to people of all classes, theater retreated into the walled-off world of the gentry. Certainly the tradition of privately commissioned performances began long before the drawing room comedy appeared, but before the Restoration period such private affairs were balanced by theaters like the Globe which attracted everyone from shop apprentices to the nobility or by traveling companies of players performing for more geographically isolated audiences. With...
...Archibald Craven, Mary's emotionally challenged uncle and guardian, Matthew Anderson '03 brings to life a multi-dimensional character struggling to deal with the loss of his wife and struggling to deal with Mary, this new life-force who invades his forbidding Victorian household. Anderson's singing improves upon his effortless ability to act with both the living and the dead. His impressive timbre adds new layers of meaning to Lucy Simon's beautiful and haunting melodies...
...Delaware's crowded resort town of Rehoboth Beach for years. But when Mike decided to retire and they visited friends in nearby Lewes, the Tylers were smitten. Perched where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic, Lewes (pronounced Loo-iss) is a quiet Dutch seaport with pristine beaches, elegant Victorian homes and a nearby state park. The Tylers bid on an ornate Queen Anne-style fixer-upper and, after finishing the restoration, opened a bed-and-breakfast, the Wild Swan Inn, in 1993. "We selected Lewes because it had small-town charm," says Mike, 57. "When we saw the house...
Those planning just to visit might start at the Lathrop House, a Victorian bed-and-breakfast two blocks from downtown. When it comes to dining, residents are quick to point out that Montrose's handful of good restaurants aren't up to glitzy Aspen's standards. But they aren't up to Aspen's prices either. That, for the folks who live here, is the point. --R.W. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Denver...
...massive environmental catastrophe is predicted, but help arrives in the form of new and utterly unexpected technology. America in the 21st century? No, London in the 19th. Some apocryphal Victorian, so the story goes, looked at the rate at which the number of horses on city streets was increasing and assured his peers that their capital would soon be knee-deep in horse manure. He got it wrong, largely because he failed to predict the imminent rise of the automobile. That brought its own problems, of course, but the point was that Victorians were blindsided by the future--which...