Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sake reached Britain at the height of her prosperity. Painters, buyers and art critics were flourishing as never before (or since) in a happy bond of mutual agreement. On the broad walls of well-to-do Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...
...Bliss of the McGuffogs. To wen, the spiritual father of socialism and the labor union, Author Young devotes most of her history. Her ironic prose serves admirably to ridicule the pomposi ties of the Victorian world against which Owen spent his life tilting...
...adaptation has also lost much of the dramatic effect which Ibsen originally wrote into the last act. Here, deciding that she must fight against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...
...difference between these two Easter programs is a striking illustration of what is going on throughout the U.S. in church music. For the past decade, music directors and organists of big city parishes have been vigorously campaigning to throw out the oldtime Victorian anthems and Gospel hymns and substitute the works of the so-called "pure classicists" like Bach, Palestrina, Victoria and the modern imitators of their polyphonic styles. Most ministers and congregations are either indifferent or hostile to change. Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys. And even...
...Victorian Rebel. When his little girls had gone to bed and the lonely bachelor was alone in his rooms, he would find himself face to face with what Author Lennon believes was the other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself...