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The pathetic state of international disaster relief--arguably the United Nations is better at peacekeeping , which isn't saying much--calls to mind Lytton Strachey's description, in Eminent Victorians , of the anarchy with which Florence Nightingale was confronted when she set out to help wounded British soldiers in Crimea.
The interior décor now says much more about the Victorians’ romantic image of Scotland than it does about how the room would have really looked: The walls are lined with suits of armor and swords.
The Victorians reworked the history and legends of Scotland to add romantic, neo-Gothic touches.
He wants to maintain the tidy and comfortable belief, beloved by Victorians of all epochs, that thrift is always a virtue.
Eager to show concern for the right kind of people and to make it clear that he won't shed a tear (or spend a dime) on the--you know--bad people, Al Gore and his followers have been promiscuous with the phrase "America's Working Families," Gore's version of the Victorians' "deserving poor."