Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operetta that has any humor of its own. Iolanthe, happily, is such an operetta: W.S. Gilbert, for once, lampooned a group he actually knew by sight--instead of pirates and Japanese--and the result, coupled with Sir Arthur's magnificent mock-hymns, was a grandly devastating jibe at the Victorian Establishment. Peers sweep around the stage, admitting, grandly, at they are doing "nothing in particular"; demand humble submission from the Lower Middle Classes and intone a soulful invocation the watery joys of Blue Blood...
...years and 400 pages, George lopes after Sylvia and Janet. After dithering a bit, he marries Sylvia, who is ten years his senior, rather than Janet, who is eight years his junior. Long practiced in the craft of writing family pageants. Author Spring keeps the subplots boiling, has a Victorian fondness for quaint characters with Dickensian names and habits: necrophiliac Mr. Tiddy, bluestocking Medea Hopkins, Brookes the perfect butler, Nurse Collum, who once saved her virginity by diving into the Isis at Oxford...
Knighthood in 1956 has changed Bill Lyons not one whit. He still belongs to no clubs, leads a quiet life with his wife at their Georgian-Victorian country home. His only hobby, says a close friend, "is making Jaguar even better." He is also determined to make it bigger. To get more plant space, he last year bought Jaguar's venerable neighbor, the Daimler Co. Last week Sir William made his boldest move yet: he bought the Coventry plant of defunct Guy Motors, Ltd., where he plans to diversify into trucks. Aim: to have cart horses as well...
...younger, less secure and less repulsive," confided Britain's best-selling Poet John Betjeman, 55, to Associated Press Confessor Eddy Gilmore, "I used to wear modern things. But now I look at the best-dressed men and wear exactly the opposite." So crowing, the latter-day Victorian and crusading architectural antiquarian modeled the glory of his ragbag wardrobe: a morning suit originally made for U.S. Novelist Henry James -who died in, London 45 years ago. "It's wonderful to wear his clothes." beamed Fellow Author Betjeman. "I didn't need a single alteration. But I must confess...
Wedded to all the Victorian proprieties, the widowed Mrs. Alving keeps her son ignorant of the drunken and dissolute life of his captain father. She stifles her longstanding passion for her minister, Pastor Manders. She never tells her maid that the girl is the illegitimate daughter of Captain Alving. Gradually, the fagade of respectability is stripped away-most cruelly by seeing her son in the last ravages of inherited syphilis. In belated, horrifying self-recognition, Mrs. Alving realizes that to save her face she has lost her soul...