Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his second wife Aline, he lived in an anachronistically Victorian farmhouse in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.,-where he covered page after page with notations for new designs while firing up a forest of matches to keep his ever present pipe alight. His office was full of new commissions (among them: the new CBS building near Rockefeller Center), and when he entered the University of Michigan Hospital a fortnight ago, he had been planning to pick up an honorary degree from the Technical Institute of Hannover, an award held by only five living men. The doctors' diagnosis was brain tumor...
...notoriety, Lady Chatterley's Lover is, essentially, just an extravagant sentimentalization of sex and nature through which D. H. Lawrence passionately protested against industrial civilization and Victorian prudery. But despite what Katherine Anne Porter has called its "imbecilic harmlessness," the book still draws devout support, as was shown during last year's obscenity trial in Britain when Lawrence's four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play (at a private...
Last year Duskin launched Emerson, named for Ralph Waldo, by simply renting a gabled Victorian mansion in Pacific Grove, a dry town founded by Methodists that seems at times as whimsical in its way as Emerson. For example, the municipal code forbids "any person to molest or interfere with the peaceful occupancy of the monarch butterflies on their annual visit to the city of Pacific Grove." Pacific Grove gives Emersonians the butterfly treatment. "They're a little weird," says the chief of police, "but I kind of like seeing them around...
...Cost of Hunting. No committee member was a more indefatigable antique hunter than Jackie herself. In storage, and in antique shops in Baltimore. New York and London, she uncovered such prizes as a Bellange pier table ordered by President Monroe and a Victorian slipper armchair of the Lincoln period. Steadfastly claiming that "the question of money should be subordinated to esthetic values," Jackie and the committee refused to reveal prices. But some of the pieces cost as much as $13,000. What Jackie was discovering was a fact happily known to every antique dealer in the U.S.-Early Americana comes...
...particular, the score adheres, if anything, somewhat too closely to the text: the persons of a Jamesian narrator remains, and a gentleman in Victorian evening dress is required to deliver a dull and quite uncalled-for prologue, and then to disappear abruptly and permanently. A bit upsetting, that...