Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting up a separate establishment." With this provocative generalization, written 80 years ago in The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler not only supplied the main clue to his own character but set hissing the long fuse at whose other end stood that grand, portentous chunk of dynamite, the Victorian father. But Butler's masterpiece was only published after his death (1902), and it was not until the rebellious '20s that his Way of All Flesh became the model for hundreds of novels by other Pa-baiting young authors...
...rawness and Southern comforts. Times, whether for good or ill, have changed; a visitor to the city can prowl most of Boston before he runs across much restriction or even restraint. But though the nineteenth-century veneer of its citizenry is no more, the Commonwealth clings to laws of Victorian vintage...
Miss Cam was born in 1885 in a tiny English village near Oxford. One of a large family she was educated at home in the "Old Victorian Tradition," a regime that supplied enough routine for a dozen lives. "I adored reading," she says. "I regarded books as an escape . . . the more unlikely reality the better I liked them." The least like Victorian reality were the medieval romances of Charlotte Young, and these Miss Cam read avidly...
...meals in her Cambridge apartment, after a lifetime of eating institutional food, she rose to the occasion and according to a friend "can now jug a rabbit or produce a curry that's first rate." Viewing her own abundant activity, Miss Cam has occasional stirrings of a most Victorian solicitude. "Sometimes," she says, in a high, cultured voice, "Sometimes, I think I'm just a little too cant...
...originator of comparative literature at Harvard. He spent eight years in Grays 38 and liked the room so much that he left a fund preserving it as a home for visiting professors. Since then, Grays 38 has acquired many antique fixtures. Now equipped with an oriental rug, a Victorian bureau and a Colonial bed, it is a strange contrast to its otherwise ordinary setting. JOHN S. WELTNER