Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warren received praise from the poets' critical claque for Brother to Dragons, but the sad truth was that this long narrative poem about a frontier murder was dull and prosy. In A Hopkins Reader, there was plenty of evidence, though not easy to read, to show why a Victorian Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, is still an influence on poets writing today. And of U.S. poets today, no better sampling came along than New Poems, ably edited by Rolfe Humphries. The price...
...Melbourne, after the U.S. Davis Cup team had been knocked out in the quarter-final round. Australia's teen-aged (19) Lewis Hoad beat Teammate Teen-Ager Ken Rosewall. 9-7, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, for the Victorian tennis title. Aussie bookmakers promptly made the U.S. a 3-1 underdog in this month's Davis Cup matches...
...Kingston, pausing along the way for a quick dip in the Caribbean. Visibly wilted, the Queen could muster few smiles during a late reception at King's House, mansion of the island governor, Sir Hugh Foot, next day made by Elizabeth a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. After three days, embarking for the Panama Canal Zone on the 15,902-ton liner Gothic, the Queen was startled when a dusky Jamaican, impetuously turned Raleigh, tossed his linen jacket at her feet. Ignoring the incident, the Queen walked on. This week, after landing at Cristobal, Elizabeth and Philip...
Buttons & Bows. Toscanini has a special fondness for his old house in Milan, and spent the early part of his summer there. He had it decorated to his taste around 1908, a Victorian era hodgepodge of heavy furniture and silk brocade walls and draperies, has refused to have it redecorated since. The only change he permits is the rehanging of his numerous paintings, and he insists on directing this himself, scrambling up stepladders with hammer and hooks in hand to fix the settings, while servants hold the heavy frames and family members hold their breaths, worrying about a fall...
...scamp but a fireballing politico who marries into money, gets elected to Parliament, enters the Cabinet and finally becomes Lord Nimmo, without ever losing his missionary zeal or his sense of political destiny. Except the Lord,* which takes Chester Nimmo back in point of time to his mid-Victorian boyhood and young manhood, asks, retrospectively, one central question: What made Nimmo...