Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomson comes from Missouri, but got to Manhattan by way of Harvard and Paris. Since he repatriated himself and joined the New York Herald Tribune, he has become America's most readable, and perhaps its best, music critic. Concertgoing by night, and composing by day in his dim, Victorian rooms in Manhattan's old Chelsea Hotel, he has also become one of the few U.S.-born composers who can (or cares to) catch the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of the U.S. in his music-one reason that documentary moviemakers like Pare Lorentz (The Plow That Broke...
...TIME'S imaginary correspondent] found Sir Edward's Kensington flat filled with books, by no means scientific only. He is a great reader of Victorian novels, and of Trollope and Dickens especially. 'And what about detective stories?' I asked. 'Why, of course, two or three a week, especially by women authors, who have got male authors beaten in this branch of fiction...
...today) and civilization rests upon two banks, one (financial) which men invest in but deprecate, the other (religious) which the)L praise to high Heaven but seldom invest in. The second survivor, Butler's only, real novel, The Way of All Flesh, is a unique period-study of Victorian home life...
Contemporary man, awed by the beady eye of the child psychologist and the social worker, finds the most respectable Victorian blood far too bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...
...program's early days has not been repeated. The Daily Worker has suggested that he may be a "crypto-Fascist," and his relations with girls have been limited to an occasional game of tennis. Dick Barton is, in fact, so much the repressed antitype of his Victorian forerunners that British Freudians expect him any day to "break out spectacularly, in a manner which will horrify Krafft-Ebing...