Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial staff means that a large number of students in the field will have to find new tutors, and the Sophomores will, in general, get newly appointed tutors who have yet to learn the ropes. Finally, the omitting of such a basic course in the field as 52, Victorian Literature, is difficult to condone, especially since criticism has always been levelled at the department for its disregard of preparing men for Divisional exams...
...direction and at any speed in the fourth dimension as well as in the other three. Joining J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, and a number of others in this favorite form of fantasy, Mr. Anderson goes in for character analysis and nostalgic reminiscence in the field of Victorian sweetness and propriety...
...sentimentality in this play is effective, and is likely to appeal to most of those who are not still in the throes of anti-Victorian reaction. The metaphysics in it, however, will not stand much inspection. The idea seems to be that if you had your life to live over and took the wrong course in an effort to be different from what you had been, you could see how wrong the wrong course was, and then go back to your real life and discern the merits of the right course, which you took in the first place...
Until he began gathering material for this biography, Author West shared the conventional view of his subject: Darwinism he took for granted; Darwin the man he regarded with "faint distaste" as a too typical Victorian. When he became better acquainted with his material, he changed his mind. He became fond of Darwin the man, and he made a shocking discovery about Darwinism. He discovered that Fascists, Communists and rugged individualists all claim direct descent from Darwin's theory of the Survival of the Fittest. What these monstrous descendants ignore, decided Author West, is that Darwin got his Survival theory...
...careful writing, Author West sets out to bring Darwin into modern perspective, succeeds in making this newest biography of Darwin the freshest yet written. But with all his shrewdness Author West cannot quite clear up the great Darwin paradox: the contrast between his revolutionary work and the conventional Victorian who produced...