Word: ruskinism
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...keeping up with the times, now lives aboard a Concorde. "Of the newly rich people I have known, few seemed really fulfilled," says Demarest. "Others compete for what they have and are, but the rich have already won. Those of us who are distinctly unrich can console ourselves with Ruskin's words: 'There is no wealth but life...
Pamela M. Ruskin '79, coordinator of the music "orgy" and general manager of WHRB, said yesterday musicians were not paid for ther performances at the festival. The orgy was funded through soft drink and T-shirt sales at the festival, she added...
...Most of the musicians are really dedicated people, playing here for exposure or trying to revive interest in folk music," Ruskin said...
Bachman, a discerning student of English with an M.A. from the University of Chicago, approached her work with firm opinions. "My assumption," she once said, "is that the standard of literate English still goes back to Victorian English, and that people who haven't read Darwin, Ruskin, Dickens and Thackeray don't have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese...
...enduring strengths is precisely its reliance on the profit motive which, like it or not, is a powerful human drive. To many idealists the primacy of the profit motive has long seemed to be a sanctification of selfishness that produces a brutalizing, beggar-thy-neighbor society. Victorian Moralist John Ruskin denounced "the deliberate blasphemy of Adam Smith: Thou shalt hate the Lord thy God, damn His laws, and covet thy neighbour's goods...