Word: victorians
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More than a century after Charles Dickens' pageant of nameless benefactors, twists of narrative, and startling revelations, Journalist David Leitch, 45, appears with a document that ratifies the conventions of the Victorian novel. In the first volume of his autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice...
Morelli (in the first) and Pakalnis (in the second) tagged Bruin starting hurler Danny Rice for solo shots that bounced in front of two pseudo-Victorian houses...
...emotional life of the middle classes in the 19th century. It is a challenging subject, and Gay challenges it with polymathic verve. In his first volume, The Education of the Senses, Gay concentrated on sex and demonstrated in exhaustive detail that despite what many people think about the Victorian era, nice girls did it then too. Now, in the second volume of a prospective six, he turns to the slightly more complex question of love and demonstrates once again that yes, they enjoyed...
...wish to shew you & my God that I have gained purity & self-control . . . and therefore when we are married, will you consent to remain for the first month in my arms a virgin bride, a sister only?" Well, somehow they managed to conceive four children and live together in Victorian happiness for more than 30 years...
...opening night in the theater is ordinarily a state of controlled disaster. But Wuthering Heights is no ordinary show. Subtitled "A Pop Myth," the setting and costumes are an amalgam of Victorian Gothic and MTV Modernism, and almost all the dialogue has been replaced by lip-synching to pop songs by the likes of Sting and Kate Bush. Keshishian has transformed Catherine, Heathcliff, and Linton from English nobility to pop stars, and added supporting characters like an agent (Nicholas C. Bienstock '88) and a washed up singer (Mona A. Khalil...