Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dumpy dowager who has traditionally ruled the waves from the nation's coins and bank notes. Stripped of her Roman helmet and a good deal of her heft, the pert new Britannia has a becoming shoulder-length hairdo to replace the sausage curls she has worn since Victorian times, even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than the Emperor Hadrian. A spokesman for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street groped for the right words to express the bank's official comment, came up with, "She's a glamour...
...Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals and the gulf between father and son, a relationship vividly accented by Paul Rogers' portrayal of a paternal Victorian martinet. Ustinov's conclusions are not startling: that young radicals become old conservatives, that sons understand and forgive their fathers too late; that marriage is more a football, than an Elysian field. The comedy's chief impression is faintly melancholy, that man is a hostile, disdainful stranger...
Bettelheim touched briefly on the problems created by the fact that men and women are now, in the post-Victorian period, highly conscious of their sexual relationships. "Each is terribly anxious to give the other complete satisfaction," Bettelheim said. "If the woman does not reach this goal, she worries that she is frigid; the man fears that he is not masculine enough for her to enjoy...
...Victorian mansion that has been used by California Governors over the past 60 years looks something like a three-tiered wedding cake. But most of its tenants have had complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
...book is fragmentary, largely because Friend and Guardian Watts-Dunton stole the most purple chapters from Swinburne and would not give them back. Wilson laments the loss, through Victorian prudery, of a potential English prose master who might have done great things if encouraged. Bits of Lesbia Brandon justify his claim...