Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Murphy, already famed as the federal prosecutor of the Hiss case, not only stands a reassuring 6 ft. 4 in. and weighs an impressive 245 Ibs., but is equipped with a luxuriant mustache. As a prosecutor in the courtroom, he invariably conjured up the image of a Victorian guardsman. Eyeing his new photographs, it was almost impossible not to visualize him in an old-fashioned cop's helmet, or to picture him as an honest bartender, white apron, gold watch chain and all, stepping out of the gaslit past, with a bung starter in one meaty hand...
Negotiations began July 9 in the grey Victorian offices of the Ministry of Education in Budapest. Rakosi himself represented the state. Fearing his age and slowness of speech might handicap the church's case, Archbishop Grosz appointed a chief advocate: Father Ferenc Horvath, a red-cheeked little Jesuit priest...
...team is not much interested in going to Hollywood. For one thing, they think a good deal of their success depends on their understanding of the British background. "Hollywood's idea of Britain is strictly Victorian," they feel. "You'd . . . have to stick in the inevitable London fog, Thames Embankment, or Cleopatra's Needle . . . There's no doubt you'd become a hireling...
...late Ford Madox Ford was just such a neglected writer. He was the son of the London Times's erudite German music critic, Dr. Francis Hueffer (the son changed his surname to Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
...making the crime a tantalizing enigma-which in itself may leave some cinemagoers feeling cheated-at the cost of making its leading character too enigmatic to invite either sympathy or censure. Madeleine (Ann Todd) seems inadequately drawn, inconsistent and unreal. The story's conflicts grow out of hidebound Victorian conventions, and these are pictured so stiffly, e.g., in the character of Leslie Banks as Madeleine's priggish father, that some of the situations resemble showboat melodrama...