Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands"; yet it is equally true and absorbing for adults. Down a rabbit hole and through a looking glass, Lewis Carroll leads mankind into a world that is both sad and hilarious, wondrously nonsensical, and yet vividly relevant to a century from which most of the solid Victorian absolutes of Truth, Goodness and Progress have faded like the Cheshire Cat. There is no more devastating comment on Marxist myth than the White Queen's "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today." In his wildest escapades, whether hunting the Snark ("They sought it with thimbles, they sought...
...signs outside identified it as a hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...entirely in New York City with little budgetary corner-cutting. The cast had three weeks' rehearsal before a camera rolled; scenes were done in original sequence so that the actors might have a chance to develop their roles naturally; except for a few scenes made outside an old Victorian house on The Bronx's City Island, the whole picture was shot in a complete house built on the sound stage...
...them. "Drunkenness and premarital relations mean a gap in one's responsibility toward society." But 40% of the girls dissented. "If the speech were taken seriously," said one girl, "probably two-thirds of the students would withdraw." Said another: "If Vassar is to become the Poughkeepsie Victorian Seminary for Young Virgins, then the change of policy had better be made explicit in admissions catalogues." More to the point, the question of whether personal morals concern Vassar only when they bring the college into "public disrepute" got an affirmative answer from 81% of the students...
...Homburg set squarely on his head, his natty guardsman's mustache stretched over a smile, a fresh carnation peeping from his lapel, Whalen flashed into the jazz age like a Victorian anachronism. He was the man in the lead car of every great tumultuous Broadway parade, the companion of the hero of the hour, always the host, never the honored guest, forever the other fellow in the news photos. Impeccable in dress, urbane in character, it was he to whom the city turned when it wanted to put on the dog for a visiting celebrity...