Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many-volumed histories that caused much of the sag in Victorian bookshelves have largely disappeared, but at least one U.S. historian still prefers to see his craft write large. He is Yale University's Kenneth Scott Latourette, 78, a precise, untiring Baptist minister, who has just overseen the publication of his 568-page The Twentieth Century Outside Europe (Harper & Row: $8.50), the fifth and final volume of a series entitled Christianity in a Revolutionary...
...Boston was not a feeling, but a state of being. Yet Godfrey Lowell Cabot was remarkable even for a member of Boston's two most famed families. He was not content to peer down from Beacon Hill and mourn, like the late George Apley, the passing of Victorian glory. He moved into the outside world and modern times with astonishing vigor and effectiveness, and he left behind him his own highly personal mark...
...third Earl Russell, whose grandfather was a Victorian Prime Minister, often acts as if he had inherited the job along with the family title. Since the Cuban crisis erupted last month, Bertrand Russell (family motto: Che Sara Sara) has been cabling, writing and calling world statesmen with such vim and volubility that the government in Whitehall has had trouble getting a word in edgewise...
...gentle, proper man who favored bow ties and bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges...
...Their nicknames are "Kitten," "Bouncer" and "Puss" (Wilde's was "Hosky"). Wilde's active homosexualism is not thought to have begun until years later; nothing is to be inferred from cute nicknames or cuddly phrases beyond the surrogate sexuality common to young upper-class British males in Victorian times. The public-school youth of those years lived a womanless life from the time he left the nursery till he was ready to marry, and Wilde was merely one side of the Victorian coin whose obverse was that ascetic, womanless hero, General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon...