Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JUST how interesting Homer's earnest art was to remain, no Victorian could have guessed. In his day he seemed strong but crude. Now. in an age of infinitely cruder painting, it is the strength of Homer's honesty that tells. This week, 48 years after Homer's death. Washington's National Gallery is honoring his memory with a big retrospective show. The 241 pictures proved to the hilt that Homer's passion was for realizing life as he saw it. and as forthrightly as he possibly could. Said Museum Director John Walker...
...Young man?" she questioned, putting a fresh nib in her Victorian wooden...
...author's fantasies, it ,lso contained a lot of down-to-earth ommon sense. The marriage bed, its uthor proclaimed, was for pleasure as veil as procreation. The wife can and hould be a full partner, allowed to take he initiative and to enjoy fulfillment, way with the Victorian idea that a nice" woman should be the passive, un complaining object of her husband's bestial libidinous urges...
...even learned to chuckle while chucking babies and trading supermarket small talk. As the 1958 election approached, Harriman's party was out of the financial red; his opponents for the moment were out of worthwhile candidates and issues. Honest Ave took a confident, proprietary grip on the ugly, Victorian Governor's mansion...
...lives in a shack at Berkeley, Calif. Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy concubine" in the first of several "Zen Free Love Lunacy orgies." Rucksack Revolution. This may explain why Ray drags his sneakered feet a bit when the boys finally start climbing the Matterhorn in the Sierra Nevada...