Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a time when it was easy for one generation to pass ideals on to the next. There was something about the dark, dust-gathering swirls in the Victorian woodwork; something about the starched primness of their collars and the faded coloring in their petticoated dresses that made it easy to pass that on. Young men were ambitious and old men were Christian and children were an awkward combination of the two. But through it all life was slow enough for people to read the Bible to their grandchildren before they died...
...their pockets. But those who came back left the prayer books behind them and had nothing to read to the children they hardly knew. It was not easy to teach religion and idealism from memory, so what their sons learned was something less than the absolute beliefs that Victorian generations had never thought to question...
Leighton and Bloch's prize-winning comedy "Spring Again" finally brings the veteran C. Aubrey Smith back to the stage; where he belongs. Long typed by Hollywood as the old-school tie and "all that sort of rot" kind of Victorian Englishman, Smith finds himself in his own element as the lovable old American gentleman, Halstead Carter. An able supporting cast, headed by Grace George and Ann Andrews, and the excellent direction of Guthric McClintic combine to fashion an enjoyable play despite the handicap of an old and unwieldy plot...
Last week in the House of Commons, copper-topped Dr. Edith Summerskill, who has practiced medicine for 18 years, moved "a prayer" for the annulment of Regulation 33B because it was inadequate. Said she: "The Minister of Health has approached this problem like a Victorian spinster reared in a country parsonage and sheltered from the facts of life...
More concerned with letters than with immediate life was William Gaunt with The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy ($3), a witty history of the famous group of British Victorian painters. Virginia Woolf also, in her posthumous Death of the Moth ($3), showed her most delicate skill as a literary escapist. Harry Levin's James Joyce ($1.50), blind though it was to Joyce's grandest and plainest virtues as an artist, furnished plain readers with useful X-rays of much that was most abstruse in Joyce's genius...