Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members and their projects are: Griselda White, dancing as therapy for psychological and physical rehabilitation; Judith K. Brown, a cross-cultural study of societies in which women dominate subsistence activities; Barbara Gelpi and Mary G. Mason, research on the Victorian critic and essayist Walter Pater; Barbara G. Rosenkrantz '44, a history of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. An excellent biography of the brilliant and irreverent Prime Minister whose gaiety and wit infuriated his Victorian contemporaries even as they illuminated the issues and pretenses of his time...
...wisest men have been unable to draw a sure line between what is harmful and what is merely realistic or daring in literature. Moreover, freer access at least allows the reading public to discover just how dull pornography really is, while suppression tends to make it even more titillating. Victorian England, for example, seems to have been as sexually depraved as any era in history-and its pornography flourished underground. Lady Snow is refreshing and courageous in speaking out, unfashionably, against the philosophy of anything-goes; but her indignation does not necessarily lead her to a realistic solution...
DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. An Oxford historian's excellent biography of the brilliant and irreverent Prime Minister whose gaiety and wit infuriated his Victorian contemporaries even as they illuminated the issues-and pretenses-of his time...
Charles Ives--Yale man, insurance salesman, transcendentalist, composer--surely one of the most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German academic tradition, he was steeped in Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, as well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel tunes, and "sentimental drawing-room ballads" of late nineteenth-century America. Yet Ives was a composer far ahead of his time, employing radical devices such as polytonality, metrical modulation and tone clusters long before they appeared in the European musical spotlight...