Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surreally, as in the cautionary cartoons of Honoré Daumier or Félicien Rops, the mask of painted sophistication is ripped away to reveal the grinning skull with its swarm of worms. In a vicious series of rebounding betrayals, the husband is murdered, the wife is disfigured, the virtuous young mother goes insane...
...Sita, wife of Rama, was kidnaped by Ravana, but later proved by a trial by fire that she was still virtuous. Lakshmi was the consort of Vishnu and the goddess of wealth and luck. The Rani of Jhansi fought the British in the 1857 Indian mutiny, was killed in battle...
...enterprise that founded the great fortunes and industries. Even Horatio Alger, Samuelsson points out, always had his pious little lads get into the big money by "a gigantic inheritance, left to his hero by some previously unknown relative, or a gift from a multimillionaire who felt the virtuous boy to be worthy of a reward. Thrift and diligence were adequate instruments for winning the favour of rich relatives or bosses or millionaires' daughters, but not for achieving wealth singlehanded...
...father's titled ghosts seem oddly dated in Welfare State England. Moreover, there is something lacking-the figure of the innocent but virtuous hero (Paul Penny feather of Decline and Fall, Adam Fenwick-Symes of Vile Bodies) whose reasoned view of an unreasoning world gave a special cutting edge to the elder Waugh's comedy. Auberon says he has no interest in being a professional novelist. He wrote The Foxglove Saga because it was what was expected of him in a literary family (his father wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and his Uncle Alec wrote Loom...
...dogged devotion to her husband; as a patrician and a thoroughly unemancipated woman, she never felt released either from wifely duty or wifely affection simply because her husband was a confirmed philanderer. In fact, as Biographer Maurois tells it, in a somewhat simpering, grandfatherly style, Adrienne was so relentlessly virtuous that it sometimes seems as if La Fayette simply had to seek out other women in order to keep from being drowned in a wave of honey...