Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles at 8 p.m., December 28 in the Club House at 234 South Loma Drive; Buffalo at 12 noon, December 30 in the Buffalo Athletic Club; Rochester at 12 noon, December 29 in the Victorian Room of the Sheraton Hotel; Syracuse, December 28; Chicago at 12 noon, December 28 in the Grand Ballroom of the LaSalle Hotel...
Christmas present to the U.S. In the package: Genius Edison's old five-building laboratory in West Orange, N.J., his gabled Victorian house near by, his library of some 10,000 books, most of the earliest working models of his inventive "firsts." Among the heirlooms: the first universal stock-market ticker, the first successful phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb, the first generator to produce electricity efficiently...
Surrounded by Victorian fireplaces, mammoth sky-lights, and an unused swimming pool, the administrators of the University's three Regional Studies Programs are guiding almost 70 carefully selected graduate students through investigations that seem curiously out of place in the elaborate Gold Coast surroundings of 16 Dunster Street. For not only are the programs on East Asia, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East--among the newest at the University, but they are also dramatic illustrations of the interest of American higher education in the revolutionary area stretching from Egypt to Japan, and from Lithuania to Siberia...
...entry in this year's Venice Film Festival, is a beautifully designed Christmas card set to the music of the old English carol. The Twelve Days of Christmas. Placed in the sparkling snow of a Victorian London, the film recounts the wooing of Wendy Toye during the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany. Waggish Suitor David O'Brien arrives each morning with a pyramiding progression of flora, fauna and assorted humans that, within a fortnight, have jampacked Wendy's neat home with speckled cows, choirboys, colored doves, milkmaids, kings and pear trees. A pleasant, 22-minute short...
...VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed by Victorian standards. Margaret is a Princess, in a predominantly socialist-minded state, who has little chance of ascending the throne...