Word: victorianism
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...drowsing lioness at midday stirs in the grasses under a flat-topped acacia tree. She yawns, and her mouth is an abrupt vision of medieval horrors, of ripping white spikes. And then the mouth closes and she is a smug, serene Victorian dowager. She complacently surveys her young, who sleep near by, and subsides again into her torpor...
...proliferation of sexual diseases. These diseases are typically dismissed as accidental; perhaps, however, they are pregnant with meaning. Consider: underlying modern man's promiscuity is the notion of man's natural shamelessness. We have been taught that sex is man's sole and overpowering desire. Shame generally and Victorian conventions specifically are, the argument runs, radically unnatural...
Voyager is trundling along at an average 110 miles an hour, an almost Victorian pace by jet-age standards. (Lindbergh's average cruising speed was 107 m.p.h.) While contemporary travel makes the world a smaller place as the Concorde zips from New York to Paris in less than four hours, the flight of Voyager seems to restore the planet to its full, true grandeur. Even if the plane does not make it all the way back, Yeager says, she will still feel a sense of achievement. "If we made the attempt and something happened to the airplane," she said...
...MOST boring period in all of history: the Victorian Era. A time of chastity, of temperence, and of virtue. Of staid manners and reverence for the Queen. Nothing if not dull...
...great material does not necessarily make for great productions. Gilbert and Sullivan's musically complicated librettos require a talented cast and orchestra--a combination generally in short supply. Happily, Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan society delivers a lively and professional production, a big-budget spectacle worthy of a Victorian opera...