Word: victorians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...almost like reading Victorian novels," says Judith Abrams Plotz '60, now a writer in Washington, D.C. "You say to yourself, 'How can people live so'--but yet these people were human...
Although Irving admires and emulates the expansive methods of Victorian fiction, he is, after all, a product of this century and all of its horrors. He cannot, like Dickens, honestly trick out a story with coincidences that will allow good people to triumph; the best Irving can offer is a tale that concludes with a few survivors who are not entirely maimed or deranged by what they have been through. Irving's plot absolves his people; it is so punishing that they are innocent by comparison. If abortion can ease their suffering, then the abortionist must be heroic. That...
...Alcohol Research Center in Berkeley, suggests that the advances made as a result of the current temperance mood could soon be reversed. Legislating against alcohol, he says, "can make it a potential symbol of rebellion, as it was for middle-class youth in the 1920s rebelling against Victorian morals. We're already seeing the signals on college campuses." Ironically, a return to heavier social drinking could come about because of the change in attitudes and laws. "If the temperance people succeed in curbing alcoholism and alcohol abuse," says Room, "the problem will pretty much disappear, and people won't remember...
...Some Victorian scientists viewed the discoveries as evidence of a primordial flood, possibly Noah's. A few linked extinctions to the fury of volcanoes; their conjecture was based on the extraordinary explosion in 1883 of Krakatoa, a volcano between Java and Sumatra, which darkened the skies and triggered a giant tidal wave that drowned 36,000 people...
...might be acquired at the drinking fountain or the public lavatory, or so they thought, physicians quietly suggested caution in personal habits and the control of immorality in the working classes. Exposing all dangers of the disease, physicians suggested that it could be acquired even "within the boundaries of Victorian morality...