Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Misplaced Piety. Barbizon painters yearned for compassion in an era of harsh industrialization. Later they fell into disfavor for supposed sentimentality, but now scholars have resurrected them from the charge of Victorian piety and have shown that their passion for nature was closer to the scientific quests of Darwin than to unqualified love for small dogs and flowers. Now the U.S.'s first exhibition of Daubigny, some 82 oils, prints, and drawings, is on view at an out-of-the-way but ambitious institution, the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh...
...headlines, the Times even looks and sounds like an anachronism. Its patient reader must plod through the frontpage classified ads, the sporting section, the Appointments and Situations columns, the parliamentary reports and the dry-as-dust Law Reports before reaching the Bill Page, which is the Times's Victorian name for the news...
...purists will point out that the Victorian never-never-land of the operetta and the memorable songs deserve most of the credit, but last night's show was a better than main-run performance. Carol Schechtman's direction departs from the traditional background, and with good effect. The small stage never seems cluttered, even with the full cast dancing. The blocking is put to best use in the first act finale, and if the dancing is two-step rich, it is spirited and colorful...
...always illuminated personality to the surprised satisfaction of the sitter-although in the case of the famed Madame X, Sargent was so daringly personal in depicting her titian tresses and her fetish for lavendar face powder that the exotic sitter's true name (Judith Gautreau) was concealed from Victorian society. "Sargent" meant "portrait" -work high in esteem during his lifetime, low after his death in 1925 when he became confused with less talented imitators, high again now that most of the portraits have found their way into great museums. Yet before he began concentrating on commissioned portraits, and sometimes...
Last year his longtime aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, found MacArthur writing in precise, Victorian handscript across page after page of ruled paper. MacArthur explained that he was writing his "reminiscences." The memoirs, completed in six months' time, ran to more than 200,000 words; three installments have appeared in LIFE Magazine...