Word: victorians
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Byzantinology is not just a complicated subject; it is a relatively modern discipline, having been for a long time an unwanted stepchild of the classicists. Gibbon and Voltaire condemned it, but W.E.H. Lecky summed up their objections in his History of European Morals, written in Victorian England in 1869. Said Lecky, "Of that Byzantine Empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, with scarcely an exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian...
Lace & Mendelssohn. The wonder of Elgar's career (he died in 1934 at 76) was not that he failed to become a great composer but that he accomplished as much as he did in the stale, lace-curtained musical atmosphere of mid-Victorian Worcester, where he grew up. The fresh gusts of new music blowing off the Continent never stirred Worcester, and Elgar did not venture as far as London until he was 22. His father was a church organist and sometime piano tuner, and Elgar was raised on warmed-over Mendelssohnian oratorios and cantatas. He played the bassoon...
...maintains stoutly that Palmer "never killed nobody," was the victim of prejudice and circumstantial evidence in the Cook case. In other hands this story might be merely one of those Sunday-supplement series called "Did Justice Err?" But Old Pro Graves has written a fine cross section of early Victorian life. With his flair for period and his ear for dialogue-he gives a wonderful Dickens-Surtees flavor to his reconstructed conversations-Graves proves once again that a born writer can make a readable book out of an old laundry ticket, or the yellow pages of a court record...
...than a step ahead of his creditors or his latest female conquest, but Graves has achieved the maximum of variety and color by making up accounts of people who knew Palmer and who tell their stories to the invisible narrator. Further, he has written in a remarkable imitation of Victorian style: "If the girl anticipated marriage by granting him what he asked, Palmer at once cooled towards her, as too giddy to be his wife; if on the other hand, she refused, he thought her cold, and abandoned the case." The book is lively, full of spirit and incidental information...
...five-day series of speeches, panels and discussion groups on the past and future of U.S. architecture. Looking back over the past 100 years, a photographic exhibit of some 200 black-and-white photographs singled out 65 high points of U.S. building, from Richard Upjohn's 1853 Victorian Wyman Villa to Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel Crown Hall, built last year at the Illinois Institute of Technology (TIME, July 2). Looking to the future, the A.I.A. also presented its annual awards to 20 contemporary architects. The top winner: Architect Eliot Noyes...