Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train Volunteers for this? Freud once remarked that children are prepared for the tropics and then sent to the polar ice cap. He was talking about children in the comfortable classes who were sheltered in the Victorian era from any knowledge of sex or aggression. Young people in our own society are less sheltered in these respects on the whole, but they are often sheltered by our relative affluence, efficiency, and cooperativeness from what it is like to live in a world of peasant distrust, misery, and fatalism. And yet Volunteers do learn. Many in the Colombia group had begun...
...lavishly embroidered sofa. The skin of each has the alabaster transparency of beeswax or some expensive face cream made with royal jelly. But their hair, their eyes, their mouths, their stiletto-heeled shoes and the upholstery against which they nestle are all an ugly, and yet powerfully nostalgic, Victorian shade of brown. The mordancy of this color and the wistfulness of the girls' expressions save them from what would otherwise be a cloying coyness. Each girl becomes both an icon of seduction and, at the same time, a sly satire of all she suggests...
...buildings's new name honors the memory of one of Harvard's particularly gifted and loyal Victorians, a man described by his brother and biographer as "a quarter Bostonian, a quarter Victorian, and one half a product of Essex Country at its best...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this tragicomic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family, a popular Yiddish storyteller demonstrates that he has the credentials of a major novelist...
Earlier in the season, the Radcliffe team captured the Victorian Coffee Urn Trophy of the Radcliffe Regatta. The Cliffies also triumphed in the Regis College Intercollegiate Cup race, the B.U. Regatta, and the Jackson Regatta...