Word: victorianism
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Sert sought to bring "a new creativity" to the Harvard campus. Huson Jackson, a business partner of Sert, said yesterday. "He was not content to continue building in the old Georgian and Victorian style," Jackson said. As part of this effort. Sert brought the prominent French modernist architect Charles Le Corbusier to Harvard in 1963 to design the Carpenter Center, the tamed designer's only American work...
...newsstands, the bestselling cover of the year was about herpes, "Today's Scarlet Letter," and drew 480 letters. A majority accused the magazine of fanning the flames of Victorian fears. Said one victim of the disease: "All I saw was example after example reinforcing the so-called leper mentality toward herpes." From the minority, however, there was little sympathy for the afflicted. Many quoted the Bible, particularly Galatians 6: 7: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...
...walk to the lake with your girlfriend at 11 o'clock at night." Karen Crowell of Knox College reminds prospects that Galesburg, Ill., is the birthplace of Poet Carl Sandburg and site of the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate. She adds, "There are a lot of large Victorian homes and brick streets." Who can resist...
...addition to seeking a medievalist, the Department is engaged in a "desultory search" for a Victorian literary specialist, Benson said...
...Yale is going on the way down now, and we're going up," said Bloomfield, who is retiring this year along with Aaron. He said there are still appointments to be made in Medieval and Victorian literature, but that, "In five to six years, the whole department is going...