Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Street--is the newest group of buildings, composed of large Colonial structures. The older, smaller, buildings on the Old Campus and along both sides of Elm Street more closely resemble old fashioned houses. In fact, many are reconverted houses, a factor which would account for their scattered locations and Victorian design...
...Victorian squire's spinster daughter will continue to go to church. But "no Labor people will go. . . because going to church means you are Conservative. The bell-ringers may continue because of the pleasure of ringing and because they admire Winston Churchill. The schoolmistress will not go . . . because being semi-educated and class-conscious, she has 'theories' about religion and regards the parson as too dogmatic...
...British government announced that George Bernard Shaw's fussy old Victorian house at Ayot St. Lawrence would be kept as a national shrine. Housekeeper Alice Laden promised to keep everything just as Shaw left it, including his prized photographs of Gandhi, Lenin, Stalin and Ibsen, which line the dining room mantelpiece...
Along with this movement, Owen says, came exaggerated Victorian design in which "dead fish, partridges, cupids, and rapes of Sabine women paraded across an otherwise innocuous table, trying to look as natural as possible...
...Victorian maids," Owens comments, "must have been expert navigators to be able to pass by a sideboard without knocking the horse out of a hunting scene...