Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often, he reveals himself as an archconservative who dislikes mass man and the whole modern era with its shoddy workmanship-one can almost see him in an English county seat decrying the servant problem and denouncing Labour amid outraged pipe smoke. He accurately describes himself as neo-Victorian in regard to sex; he speaks ill of homosexuality and masturbation, and proclaims that "without guilt, sex was meaningless." In fact, one sometimes wonders whether Mailer is not really an undercover agent of the old order, trying to undermine the Left from within...
...read a bronze plaque in a corner of the early Victorian Hoosier state house in Indianapolis. And if there is an issue in this primary campaign after Johnson's March 31st decision to withdraw and deescalate, it is Hoosierism...
...Arthur, Merlyn and the rest-and re-created it all in a new form, part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic. As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England. He was born in India in 1906. His mother, who married reluctantly and late, regarded sex and White's father with total revulsion and her only child with a flouncing petulance that lasted through her long life. Constance White did a thorough job of squelching her child...
...Victorian Drama. That neat little lie was too much for Barnard. Although the Times did not use Linda's real name in its story, the school had no trouble identifying her, and promptly charged her with violating the residence regulations. "I'm old enough by law to live anywhere and with anyone without my parents' permission," said Linda-and promptly turned the charge into a crusade for cohabitation. She and Peter, a draft resister who has dropped out of Columbia, began cranking out mimeographed leaflets calling the case a "Victorian drama." They also distributed questionnaires asking other...
...Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, grazing sheep and cows (sometimes used as milk pitchers). Today the ceramic gimcrack is coming back, this time destined as much for museums as for the coffee table, and in a radically different form. The current crop of gewgaws is more likely to be an eight-foot alligator, a toothbrush, or a bathroom scale with a few human toes still left in place...