Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy task. For the most part, British prisons were built in Victorian times, when a prisoner was locked in his cell all day and even ate his meals in it. Thus the jails are ill prepared for today's more relaxed approach, in which inmates gather in rooms converted for cafeterias, craft shops and TV. Under such conditions, surveillance is not easy and escape routes are more numerous. These days, prisoners approaching the end of their terms are generally trusted on work details outside the prison walls. There simply are not enough guards to keep an eye on everyone...
Bronze, plaster and marble, when they turn up, seem quaintly Victorian amid the outcroppings of anodized aluminum, vinyl and Plexiglas. Sheet metal is everywhere; one piece, Ernest Trova's Large Landscape, weighs about three tons. Most of the newcomers (50 of the artists were making their debuts at the Whitney annual) are addicts of "minimal art," sculpture that is stripped to unemotive zigzags. Ronald Bladen, 48, contributes an empty 8-ft. by 8-ft. by 16-ft. white plywood box, tilted up from the floor. The box is empty and the work is untitled. Ellsworth Kelly, 43, otherwise...
Born into a dull, grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths...
...class is required to reread chestnuts like The Scarlet Letter or Huckleberry Finn. But obscure writers like Rilke and Jose Luis Borges also get assigned. Robert Crunden has chosen ten books on Woodrow Wilson and the Victorian period to illustrate styles of historical writing for his Expository Writing...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The unhappy, harum-scarum Victorian upbringing of the greatest public figure of his age, written with compassion and restraint by his only son. Four more volumes are projected...