Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rophie said she considers herself a feminist, but "some feminisms are better than others," she explained. Current feminism, she said, confines women to Victorian notions of gender and sexuality...
...decades after it was abandoned as a dining hall in the mid-1920s, Memorial Hall was preserved only by neglect; many remember the administration's past hostility to the building, which was considered an unwanted remnant of the Victorian...
Even when it was relatively new, many were repulsed by the high Victorian style. In the 1920s, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, used to deliberately avoid taking visitors to Memorial Hall due to embarrassment over the building's poor design...
...Poet lived a life divided by elation and sorrow, each emotion intensifying the glory or bitterness of the other. Fortified by fiery wit and fiery whiskey, Oscar Wilde tackled the foibles of Victorian society with equal panache at the Albermarle Club and Reading Jail. As poet, dramatist, novelist, and aesthete, Wilde succeeded in expressing through his writing the myriad emotions he experienced and observed in the world around...
...architectural style is Victorian Gothic, its penology just plain gothic. Or maybe Visigothic. It is a place designed not to reform but to drive you crazy. Cool is what you need to survive here, and supercool is what you need to maintain a semblance of humanity. Andy, who insists he has been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical...