Word: victorians
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...Eugenia," is a feast for naturalists. This story's butterflies and ants provide the insects of the book's title, while "The Conjugial Angel," the second and weaker novella, is organized around seances, and of course provides the title's angels. Both stories are set against the backdrop of Victorian England's exploration of the natural and supernatural world; shipwreck and return play important roles in both stories; and both shift between two lines of narration: in "Morpho Eugenia" it is between the ants and the humans, in "The Conjugial Angel" it is between the "real" characters and the fictional...
...Adults have one foot in the Victorian era while kids are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic," complains pediatrician Karen Hein, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, who has seen too many teens infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases come through her hospital. She laments the fact that sex ed is only "about vaginas, ovaries and abstinence -- not about intimacy and expressing feelings." Kids, she says, "don't know what they're supposed to be doing, and adults are really not helping them much...
America has long wrestled with the tension between its Puritan and pioneer heritages, and its attitude toward sex has often seemed muddled. Victorian parents, fearful of their children's sexuality, would try to delay the onset of puberty by underfeeding their children. By 1910 exploding rates of syphilis drove the crusade for sex education in much the way AIDS does today. In 1940 the U.S. Public Health Service argued the urgent need for schools to get involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch...
...designers Dave Overcamp and Monbill Fung make excellent use of Agassiz Theatre, managing to squeeze the crowded Brewster household into a relatively small stage. Costume designer Alice Ristroph captures the Victorian essence of Abby and Martha with their high-necked formal dresses and long gloves; the sudden emergence of the aunts in lacey funeral attire even draws a hearty laugh from the audience...
...always associated croquet with Victorian imperialism--from novels and movies about the British in Africa, heedlessly playing games on lush plantations. To play it in Jamaica, independent from Britain for only a quarter century, seemed unsettlingly appropriate. We were strangers in this country, foreigners whose money flowed freely into the overpriced attractions and cheaply made handicrafts. We gaped at the Landscape and reveled in the temperature...