Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern excess can match the monumental efforts of our forbears. I probably wouldn't be hard for most of us to put ourselves out for the court by doing mortal damage to a couple of geese or an eighth of a cow, but even our Victorian friends would turn their noses up at such paltry quantities of grub. And to get a true idea of the real spirit of Christmas, (or any holiday for that matter) you've got to go further back, back to times when eating was a full time occupation...
...first Jones's adoption of Marxism seems exceptional in the midwest of the '50s, the stomping grounds of Joe McCarthy. Yet the midwest, settled in the mid-19th century, at the height of Victorian optimism, has a history of utopian settlements. It was the scene of American capitalism's first unimpeded development, and seems particularly capable of inspiring a revulsion towards America: the land is flat, the culture traditional, functional, bland. T.S. Eliot felt this alienation, and the tone of "The Waste Land" owes much to his native midwest. Jones, too, must have felt it, for his church is above...
...Gilbert's jabs at pomp and middle-class mediocrity--still fills an evening. But it was the deliberate self-conscious irony that made something out of Pinafore's obviously inane plot--the hundreds of little jokes in the script that combine to take all the starch out of the Victorian stuffed shirt...
...Burlington is an old port and mill town that has been enjoying an economic and architectural renaissance. Prestigious firms, such as IBM and Digital Equipment Corp., have moved into the area and built plants. The seedy waterfront is undergoing a face-lifting, and many of the city's Victorian buildings have been transformed from shabby relics into stylist shops, restaurants and dwellings. But Burlington's boom was threatened in 1976 when a major shopping-center developer the Pyramid Companies, decided to build an 82-store complex on an 80-acre hayfield in the town of Williston...
...Having finally broken the bonds of propriety, I, like a proper Victorian gentleman, reserved my screwing for sluts and kept my true loves on a pedestal...