Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shuttling between carnal and romantic love, Serezha discovers a passion more powerful than either: writing. In a scene of almost comic Victorian romanticism, complete with smelling salts and kneeling suitor, Anna Arild rejects Serezha, and the young writer is free to pursue the hard mastery of his craft. Boris Pasternak himself did not attain that mastery until he wrote Doctor Zhivago. Despite its vivid imagery, lyricism and passion for the individual. The Last Summer is an apprentice work...
...poverty-ridden Bronx childhood: a grandfather, whom a casual neighbor might well have regarded as simply an embittered, ill-tempered old cigar maker, pathetically attached to his past friendship with the great labor leader, Sam Gompers. But in Moss Hart's telling, he becomes "an Everest of Victorian tyranny," the black sheep of a wealthy English-Jewish family, who married beneath his station-his wife could neither read nor write. Of an evening in their shabby flat, he would read Dickens to the illiterate woman-and punish her with awful silence if something displeased...
...molder in a man, and by the age of ten Moore knew he would be a sculptor. Their miner's home was poor and crowded-Henry was the seventh of eight children. Father Moore was a fair but stern man. Says son Henry: "He was the complete Victorian father, aloof, spoiled like all of them in those days. No one could sit in his particular chair. But though he was not outwardly soft, he had a real concern and love and ambition for us. Particularly for his sons." He wanted Henry to become a schoolteacher, like his older brother...
...replacing the fussy gold with businesslike polished maple. Salzedo then experimented with compositions for the harp, made it into a versatile solo instrument. Says Modernist Composer Edgar Varese: "Carlos is an innovator, an adventurer. He has succeeded in changing the sex of the harp -minimizing its golden aura of Victorian femininity; he has discovered and explored its virility...
...director of music for the Methodist Church. In his Nashville (Tenn.) office last week, he stated his case. "We have to combat Communism with Christianity, and we just can't do it with gospel hymns. They dope us and they dupe us. The gospel hymn is a Victorian development-sentimental and good for nothing. Its message is that everything is blessed and peaceful. That's not the message of Christ. The message of Christ is 'Are you able to endure all things as I endure them-even crucifixion?'"' If hymns must be sung, Wiant would...