Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst offense -- well, the incomparable Max Beerbohm once wrote of W. S. Gilbert that his "one notion of humorous prose was to use as many long words and as many formal constructions as possible -- a most tedious trick, much practiced by other Mid-Victorian writers." Three Lampoon pieces are guilty on that count...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The author keeps his own rather gaudy personality under wraps as he writes with compassion and detachment of his father's affection-starved Victorian upbringing. Little Winny was a master politician even then-wheedling, chiding, cajoling his distant parents for a little love and a little pocket money...
...What's all the fuss? Even stodgy old Victorian Alfred Tennyson knew that "There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds...
...high on the thigh as Tarzan's loincloth when Designer Mary Quant, 32, grandam of Chelsea's fashion hippies, decided to hike the hems still higher. The new skirts flutter 11 in. above the knees, and require about as much cloth to make as a nice Victorian handkerchief. But the textile industry can take some heart. Mary has designed demure little matching boxer shorts for the birds to wear with their demi-minis. "They are the logical answer," she says, "for skirts so short that girls are showing everything...
...seems outrageous to tear down a handsome masonry building dating from Victorian times, one must consider the waste of energy and efficiency that would result from having people work in its non-air-conditioned rooms-or alternatively, the expense of air-conditioning them. Today, one in every four Americans changes houses each year, and a majority of them move within the same community or market area-they have simply traded in the old house for a better one. The same is true in all other fields. Less-developed countries may welcome a hand-me-down DC-3, even...