Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's 500 conference guests-including the present Baron Kenyon, 28, and his lady-temporarily doubled the town's population. They found a green and wooded campus with architecture ranging from the massive, crenelated Gothic of Old Kenyon, through degrees of Victorian adornment, to Gothic of the Age of Cram. But Kenyon is careful to keep its 19th Century ivy rustling. It is particularly proud of its young (42) president, who was only 33 when he got the job; of its flying field and its curricular course in practical aeronautics, soon to be resumed after a wartime...
...Profession and An Unsocial Socialist, all long out of print, are now available in a single volume (omitted: Immaturity and Love among the Artists). As novels they are pretty poor; Shaw himself observed that they were "just readable enough to be intolerable." But the three taken together are Victorian documents, and give a good idea of the audacious, irreverent young Shavian mind...
...young British scholars from the problems of the Empire to social problems, a contributing factor to the rise of the Labor Party to power, since Balliol, more than any other college in England, has been sending men to the top posts in the government from the time of the Victorian...
...Time to Travel. Chicago's seventh biggest department store, the Boston had always reeked with a quaint, Victorian mustiness. In its old-fashioned ways, it reflected its owner...
...valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky...