Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presbyopic, white-thatched, gangling bachelor of 67, Morandi lives with two sisters in a Bologna apartment that smells, sweetly, of the 19th century. The furniture is Victorian, the neighborhood old and still. Morandi spends his bottle-watching days in a sunny little studio overlooking the garden. "I never go out," he says, barely exaggerating. He works slowly, repainting each canvas many times, and producing perhaps a dozen finished pictures a year. These he sells for less than $200 each. They are often resold for ten times his price, but says he, "I would consider it an immoral exploitation...
...finest local specimens of Charles Addams Victorian is the antique white building which houses the Harvard Furniture Company. Customers entering the Massachusetts Avenue store are confronted with an array of gingerbread cabinets and a pair of owl andirons with amber eyes. Like the exterior, the inside of the shop seems a memorial to the taste of the last century...
...heighten the impact of these revelations, Cozzens feeds the reader key episodes from Arthur Winner's past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth...
...officers put a watch on No. 77, keeping an eye on middlemen entering and purchasers leaving the place. Last week officers raided No. 77 and confiscated what they called the "greatest hoard of looted archaeological treasures ever found in Italy." In the old palace, crowded with pressed butterflies and Victorian lamps, they found 15,000 antique items without a single legal permit, including nine showcases stacked with Etruscan vases, cups, coins, marble statuary. Four thousand pieces were rated "important," some priceless...
...eyes of generations pop with awe. They have also admired the precision and brilliance of Verne's descriptions: "titanic crabs pointed like cannon on their carriages"; "petrified bushes . . . scattered in grimacing zigzags." But no matter how exorbitant their "world," Verne's characters remain strictly human, sternly Victorian. When Verne died, it was not science that did him homage. It was Pope Leo XIII who applauded the purity and moral and spiritual value of the old S.F. master's 80-odd volumes...