Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tracery on the cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite of Paris' spring collections -the mystic and sacred time when Paris' top couturiers reveal...
Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, whom President Pusey has appointed to supervise Harvard's growth, will be faced by one of the most remarkable collections of immiscible architecture and short-sighted community planning in the country. Architectural styles from Georgian to Victorian to Late Depression jostle each other in the Yard and elsewhere, and buildings are often placed in the most inconvenient and inaccessible arrangements conceivable. Dean Sert's task requires more than an attempt to avoid any further unfortunate arrangement. To him is entrusted the fearsome task of bringing order out of chaos...
...signs of becoming fashionable. Once the identifying oddity of the notorious Teddy Boys, it is now played at coming-out balls and high-toned birthday parties (including the Duke of Kent's, who was 21 last October), in the ballroom of Claridge's and in the drafty Victorian splendor of Balmoral Castle itself, where Queen Elizabeth last summer requested a showing of Haley's movie Rock Around the Clock. The Queen's former dancing teacher. Marguerite Vacani, instructs her aristocratic pupils in its mysteries, and it has become a passion of Princess Margaret, who last week...
...Legacy, a first novel that British critics rated as the richest windfall of 1956. Clearly, Author Bedford has written not only a good novel but one that touches her contemporaries in a vital, highly sensitive nerve. That nerve is the anguished one of old Europe. A Legacy describes the Victorian and Edwardian heyday when well-to-do men and women wandered without let or hindrance in a network of social connections that ran from the tip of Scotland to the toe of Italy. They toiled not, neither did they spin (except in diplomatic circles), and Robert...
...bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal pilot), but in the end his work was recognized for what it was?amid the sentimental afterglow of the Victorian Age, only he and Thomas Hardy spoke with the cold, severe voice of tragedy. In 1923 he traveled to the U.S. to see his publisher, whom he called Doubleday Effendi, was lavishly feted, but remained withdrawn. He died one year later, "a Polish gentleman soaked in British tar." Conrad himself...