Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...papers "in that happy time which has since been called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal of fun, but very little nonsense, in the Victorian childhood which Author Gulielma Alsop recalls with understandable nostalgia in Deer Creek...
...novel by Dickens is not one of his very best, but it is rich with the crowded, humorous, hypocritical, grotesque, vigorous, and tragic life of Nineteenth-Century England. The producers of the picture have reproduced this life, giving it the sounds and scenes that were everyday to the Victorian, and have put into it characters that speak as Dickens must have intended them to speak, and look like the work of his illustrator, Cruikshank...
Fildes (rhymes with shields) would not have been too surprised. In the daguerreotypes of his heyday, Sir Luke looked like any well-fed Victorian gent, complete with goatee, chesterfield, and top hat. But he was more: a member of England's Royal Academy and a painter of royalty, including Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and George...
...Herbert Read has written 20-odd books of poetry, criticism and biography (Wordsworth; In Defense of Shelley) and become Britain's top authority on modern art. He is a not uncommon type of his generation-an intellectual who was born early enough to enjoy the traditional tranquillity of Victorian rural England, but who reached an individualistic maturity during the disordered years between two wars. It is in this respect that his autobiography makes good reading-for Read shuns sensational confessions and concentrates on the varying influences that left their marks on his mind...
Peter W. Fay '45, this year's Ivy Orator, won the Philip Washburn prize for his thesis on "Toryism and Social Discontent in Pre-Victorian England," while Sumner and Toppan prizes went respectively to Thomas E. Baker and Herman M. Somers, both of whom are Ph.D. candidates...