Word: victoriana
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...which is neither comfortable nor attractive. Leverett Towers, the still growing Holyoke Center, and the projected married students housing complex are part of this legacy; they may be personally hideous but in the future they will be an important part of Harvard's architectural museum. They represent the New Victoriana, a school based on bald gimmickry, loud primary colors, starkness and bigness, which is responsible for a good measure of contemporary American building...
...same--what does it matter") is very wealthy, very sick, and a collector of hideous Victorian furniture and bric-a-brac. His wife, Whiffy ("It's crazy! It's crazy!) doesn't really believe in collecting things, yet collects match covers avidly, wants to sell Jack's Victoriana for money, yet is terribly bored with money...
...only Jack likes Victoriana. Of similar affections are rats, for whom Jack has no affection. Indeed, he has a mania, one might say. Where Jack's mania takes him is hard to tell. When at last an exterminator succeeds in catching a few rats, the rats start killing themselves off by eating gold leaf, becoming $100 rats...
...Emily 13, when their correspondence began. Two years passed Before it grew into the steady exchange that makes A Blessed Girl one of the most entertaining and instructive volumes of Victoriana to appear for years...
...Victoriana. Her Majesty never possessed higher or more passionate epistolary powers than at the period covered by these letters (1879-1885).* Slashingly she underlines whole sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...