Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local Foreigners. Women's fashions have progressed from mere shapelessness to the Sack to the painted-on look for the rich and daring; necklines are plunging. At Moscow's heated open-air swimming pools, which are open year-round, Victorian-style swim suits have yielded to two-piece costumes for girls. "Janes," as Moscow University jets call their girls (after the heroine in antediluvian Tarzan movies that reached Russia after World War II), are discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents...
...English invented railways, and have never quite recovered from the pride and guilt of their creation. Nowhere else on earth does rundown rolling stock excite such tantrums or such tenderness. Britons venerate the shabby Victorian discomfort of antiquated first-class carriages; they despair if the diesel hauling them pants into a station 40 seconds late. When a moneylosing branch line closes down, the island is roiled with grief. Cried the headline over a lengthy London Times story last year: THE TIDDLYDIKE BRANCH LINE DIES TODAY. Sorrow had hardly faded before British Railways raised fares to pay for other uneconomical Tiddlydikes...
...Privileged and the People formed Two Nations," wrote Benjamin Disraeli in Sybil, a satirical novel of protest against the bitter poverty of Britain's .working class, contrasted with the comfort of the wealthy. The situation lasted through Dizzy's Victorian era and well into the 20th century. But in recent years, Tory-led prosperity, piled atop Labor's welfare state, has brought about an economic revolution beyond the Dizziest dreams of reform. A new formula for Britain's cost-of-living index, released last week by the Ministry of Labor, shows that modern Britain...
...their day in the beastliest language; we have plenty of foul subjects to deal with in our day, but we are not allowed to approach them very near..." 1601 was the junk-heap into which he tossed, half-humorously, half-despairingly, the knowledge and the words which in Victorian America would not have been tolerated in his masterpiece...
Burgess Hill is the tight little isle's loosest "freedom" (progressive) school. Shunning all rules, it allows boys and girls aged 7 to 17 to smoke, swear, pet, go barefoot, stay dirty-and study only if they care to. The school looks it: a crumbling Victorian mansion with peeling ochre paint and broken windows, its front pillars alternately scrawled with "Ban the Bomb" and "Keep the Bomb." Inside is a happy jumble of paintpots, squashed toffees, dirty clothes and unmade beds. Scribbled over the walls are drawings, poems and odd messages. Sample: "I've been sick...