Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mortgage. "Little Women," despite its lack of a villain and the fact that it is no carefree riot, manages to supply an ample quantity of the picturesque. The story is a childhood favorite built around a family attired in dresses lifted from Godey's Ladies' Magazine and smothered in Victorian ideals and sentiments. There is humor, philosophy, and pathos. The combination means that superb acting and directing are necessary to haul this old chestnut out of the coals...
...rest of the play. The plot is pure syrup and the interpretation hasn't prevented it from spilling over. When you should be crying you find yourself twisting a program, and you have to be careful to keep from laughing at the wrong time. The treatment is purely Victorian, as the prologue announces, but the return to candid sentimentalism is unfortunately too much for both the cast and the audience...
Starting with the question of whether we can win this war and still remain free, and whether the war is worth fighting, win or lose, Professor Usher brought out the attitude of discouraged individuals who have lost their ideals and become chagrined. "It is true that the ideals of Victorian liberalism are gone. We must find new ones to take their place," he said...
Usher says that we must take a new theory of liberalism which is more personal and places more responsibility upon the individual than the theory of self determination of Victorian liberalism. Under this system, we must institute innovations with resourcefulness, intelligence and energy...
...driver dashed wildly about the streets of Boston. When they finally arrived at the correct street, by trial and error, they encountered difficulties in removing the heavy, wheeled stretcher from its intricate moorings on the floor of the ambulance, and in twisting it up two flights of tortuously curved Victorian steps. After they accomplished the ticklish task of lifting the old lady to the stretcher and carrying her down, she added much to their woe, when nearing the hospital, by insisting that they all return immediately to rescue a pan of stewing prunes from her stove...