Word: victorianism
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...McCall Smith knows plenty about academics - his day job is teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh. He's one of those insufferably gifted people who can dabble in this and that and do it all well, as can be seen in the professorially cluttered study in the Victorian flat he shares with his wife Elizabeth, their two daughters and a Tonkinese cat called Gordon. There are promo leaflets for the Italian translations of Mma Ramotswe, as his heroine is called according to Botswana etiquette; tomes on law and medicine; a report from Britain's Human Genetics Commission...
...touts the English Department’s promotion of Leah Price ’91, a 31-year-old scholar of Victorian literature, as part of his push to tenure young scholars whose best work lies ahead...
...Airport in New York on May 14. For an hour and a half she was interrogated, fingerprinted and, she says, talked down to by customs officials. Afterward, in the corridor of the airport, drained and shaken, she did something she has never done: she fainted, "like one of these Victorian ladies," she says, laughing. Or like her mother, watching her leave Tehran airport so many years before. Then Satrapi got up, climbed into a waiting limo, rolled down the windows and started smoking...
...eight-ton Victorian house rolled past Memorial Hall and traveled along closed-off city streets in a four-hour spectacle Saturday, attracting hundreds of onlookers and clearing the way for Harvard’s biggest new construction project...
...contrast to some earlier eras, when Harvard looked at Victorian houses only as they fit into the University’s development plans, he says the current restoration project will help to “knit back the fabric of the neighborhood...