Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, a weather-beaten FOR SALE sign has drooped dispiritedly in front of the big Victorian house. With its crazy turrets, towers and gables, the place half-frightens Katie Charles, a pony-tailed 13-year-old who lives across the street and pretends that the house is a haunted castle. One day the sign is gone, and a contagious whisper races along the sycamore-lined street that the house might as well be haunted. The first Negro family is moving into Sheridan Avenue in the placid Midwest suburb of Courtland Park...
...eight sound reasons for preferring a seasoned older woman to a raw young one. It was the eighth reason that was too much for later generations-"they are so grateful!!" Even the equally sensible postscript ("But still I advise you to marry directly") failed to save Ben from the Victorian suspicion that he was not a totally respectable...
Social Security. Lucky's real target was another aging model, raven-haired Dorian Leigh, 41, the elder sister of Suzy Parker and the 1940s queen of New York high fashion. Last week Dorian sat behind the kidney-shaped, Victorian desk of her model company in London, kept an eye on a red phone for overseas calls, a black phone for clients, an olive phone for the models, and purred out her reply: "Twice a year, before the collections, Lucky mounts the same fatuous warhorse. And at a time when the French government and I are working together...
...beer, sweating out a degree and fighting to smother a lower-middle-class background with the correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic façade, where no memher has won any academic distinction since the 13th century...
Eminent literary scholar Jerome H. Buckley, recently appointed professor of English, will give a full-year survey course in Victorian literature next year...