Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born of a peculiar amalgam of scholarship and domesticity. Her family is scattered now; her husband, whom she married in 1937, is director of the Institute of African Studies in Ghana, where she is now visiting. Her three children are spread among Algeria, Zambia and India. But her old Victorian house in north Oxford still buzzes with her sister's collection of five kids...
Cape May City, N.J., for instance, has applied for funds to restore the old Victorian mansions that were built in the 19th century when the place was a stylish summer resort. Portsmouth, N.H., has a grant to restore the town's colonial atmosphere. But certain cities can be taken as exemplary...
...Hindustan. It affords no assistance in tracing the history of art, and its debased quality deprives it of all interest as a phase of fine art." This pronouncement seemed to mean that 4,000 years of Indian sculpture was damnably hard to categorize, and that its frank eroticism dismayed Victorian minds. But today's scholars are drawn to it as surely as bees to an orchid. Indian sculpture in the period from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 1500 is a hothouse wonder, an other-worldly idea clad in contemporary curves...
...very moral age, but it was certainly an age of moralists. Addison was the first lay preacher to reach the ear of the middle classes and to give dignified expression to their ideals and sentiments. He was the safest, the nicest great writer English literature had produced until the Victorian...
...filled his paintings with medals, badges, fancy lettering, pinups, comic strips (he incorporated one in a 1957 painting), athletes,, pop singers from Elvis to the Beatles. Unlike U.S. pop artists, whom he believes (incorrectly) to be harsh satirists, Blake packs his pictures with instant memorabilia as lovingly as a Victorian might press flowers in his family Bible. Married to a California beauty, he has been chosen to teach mural painting at the Royal College, where, he says, avant-garde students "already think of me as trad...