Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FANNY KEMBLE: A PASSIONATE VICTORIAN - Margaret Armstrong - Macmillan...
...this was akin to waving a flag. At a desperate moment for the Union in the Civil War--July, 1864,--Yale, instead of enlisting, rowed Harvard a furious race at Worcester before a large and excited throng. Like-wise, as Harvard took up the new games appearing in the Victorian period, Yale was out of envy forced to follow, and each time unsuccessfully. In their first baseball game, 1868, Harvard beat Yale 25-17. In 1875 one hundred and fifty students saw the Crimson defeat the Blue in their first football match...
...this Playwright Allvine has strung together in a series of scenes which include chunks of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, introduce canny Impresario D'Oyly Carte, and evoke the artistic life of Victorian London. To garnish his text, Allvine has cribbed all the celebrated remarks of the day, making his chatter sound at times like a page from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar...
Though Patriot-Pianist Paderewski has lived to see his dreams of Polish independence realized and himself a legend in the history of music, it is naturally toward his heyday, the Victorian era, that his thoughts most fondly turn. "The passing of that great period, the nineties," he muses, "brought to a close a tremendous era, a flowering of all that was most beautiful and elegant in life. We shall not see its like again...
...idea that working people ought to get a chance at Art dates precisely from the time when the Industrial Revolution put an end to handicraft. Its prophets in Victorian England were William Morris and John Ruskin; one form of its fulfillment now is the Federal Art Project's Community Centre program (TIME, Sept. 5). Meanwhile, strict Marxists interpret the social use of art narrowly to mean that art should be an instrument of class struggle, and many Lovers of Labor subjects have appeared. One of these is able Sculptor Max Kalish, represented in the Baltimore show by The Spirit...