Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Luce, decided to go ahead anyway after learning from the experts that "this slump may last as long as one year.") Luce wanted a magazine of business that would go beyond "the stale Get-Rich Maxims of onetime errand boys." He knew that businessmen got as "kittenish as a Victorian subdeb" when caught in the public eye but was not prepared for how hesitant corporations were to open their doors. In those days, stockholders were entitled to little information, the public to even less: businessmen had not progressed much beyond William Henry Vanderbilt's "the public be damned" attitude...
...moving into the restored Schermerhorn Row of counting houses, which dates from 1811 and shows off the simple charm of the period. The Museum Block, in contrast, includes 14 buildings in a medley of styles, all exuberantly restored. By next summer "Pier 17 Pavilion" will be installed. The Victorian-style steel-and-glass shopping arcade will jut into the East River alongside the four-masted sailing ship Peking and other craft in the museum's flotilla. Also to come are more outdoor cafés, commercial offices and an apartment house...
Fodor's Europe 1983 Fodor's Modern Guides; $12.95 This classic series, founded by Eugene Fodor in 1936, is sober and serious, at times more British Victorian in outlook than modern American. (Describing Europeans in his introduction, British Writer John Ardagh intones: "What does Europe really have in common, beyond geography?... Above all, we comprise the great Caucasian family of white peoples ...") Fodor's is especially trustworthy on hotels and restaurants. A knowledgeable, well-organized, basically middle-class peregrination through 33 European countries, colonies and principalities that leaves no worthy stones unturned, even if they...
Modern, by that definition, came out of Europe's revolt against Victorian eclecticism and ornamentation. It was a polemical style that was widely perceived in America as strident and upsetting. Contemporary implied that new functions and technologies required new forms, but that there was no need to get bizarre or belligerent about them. Exhibit Organizer William J. Hennessey points out in his excellent catalogue (published by the Gallery Association of New York State, which is sponsoring the show) that Wright's aim was to avoid both "forced adherence to past periods" and "the abrupt introduction of unprecedented ideas...
According to you, Margaret married the wealthy Denis by the time she was 25, which enabled her to "quit work," study law, and so on. I had no idea that "Victorian self-reliance" was the equivalent of marrying money...