Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrapt bundles appeared in the downstairs corridor of Sever. The bundles marked the culminating phase of a Great Improvement. They were the first of 1400 new desk chairs, tailor-made for Harvard and Radcliffe bottoms, to be installed in Sever classrooms during the next few months. For that venerable Victorian edifice is being entirely remodelled inside: fluorescent bulbs and light pastel color schemes are turning the place into something of a model classroom building. And in the spring, when Sever is finished, the ambitious gentlemen of the Building and Grounds Department hope to do the same for Harvard Hall...
...exiled him to a tiny back bedroom in the family's Manhattan brownstone. There, earnest, hard-working Alfred Maurer painted the attenuated young women with bedroom eyes, the wraiths of young shop girls and waitresses whom he met on inexpensive summer vacations up the Hudson. There, above the Victorian opulence of his father's rooms, he brooded over the composition of abstractions such as George Washington...
...Mellon. These were men who had made the city great-and who had left behind the ugly, lordly buildings in the business section, their monuments to Coal, Coke, Iron, Steel, Aluminum, who had left behind their Duquesne Club squatting beside Gimbel's department store, their mansions of monstrous Victorian architecture...
...exhibition, a specially commissioned mural by New Yorker Cartoonist Saul Steinberg put the modern designer's dilemma into squiggly perspective. In one panel, Artist Steinberg had drawn a cross-section of a block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg, of having his dearest creations turned into...
James Hogg (1770-1835), who was otherwise known in early Victorian times for his biography of Sir Walter Scott and two collections of Scottish ballads...