Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain generations before still referred to England as "home," still looked to London for their literary, social and international opinions, and if they sometimes rejected this guidance were still marked by it. Remote and provincial, a kind of British fly in Antipodean amber, Australia was a complacent mixture of Victorian respectability at the upper levels and a rough-and-ready bush socialism below...
...dozens and nobody's wife," is a British institution; and historians are inclined to wonder whether the Empire would have been possible without them. "My nurse was my confidante," wrote Sir Winston Churchill; though he loved his mother "dearly," he did so only "at a distance." In Victorian and Edwardian days, the nanny's career tended to follow a pattern. She was usually the promising "girl from the village," who was taken in as a young "tweeny" and slowly made her way to that precarious rank that hovered between those who were servants and those who were "quality...
Today, at 60, Righter has a staff of four secretaries, one mathematician, and two servants, produces a daily column syndicated in 253 U.S. newspapers, writes books (Astrology and You), and at his Victorian Hollywood home throws splashy parties that seem to come from a more storied era when only the screen was silent. Gouda-bodied actresses sight down their cigarette holders at producers; social climbers pretend fascination with semiliterate stars. When Taurus is the sign of the time, there is a live bull on the front lawn, and when Leo reigns, a full-grown lion. For Scorpio last week, there...
...Sage of Sex, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. A slyly barbed and engrossing biography of that eminent Victorian, Sexologist Havelock Ellis. It appears that what Ellis did not know about sex could and did fill volumes, and that only past 60 did he personally master the subject...
...Sage of Sex, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. The best biography yet of Victorian Sexologist Havelock Ellis suggests that he undertook his studies of the abnormal because his own sexual behavior was both immature and exotic...