Word: ruskinism
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...pens, and cheaper too." Do you not realize that a man is his handwriting, and his handwriting is his pen? The fountain pen is beaux arts, bold strokes, bound leather, polished brass and character. The ballpoint is Bauhaus, thin waterlines, paperbacks, plastics and personality. The fountain pen is John Ruskin; the ball point, Madonna. A man with a fountain pen in hand holds in the secret places of his heart starched cuffs and high collars, a company with "transcontinental" in its name, pince-nez, muttonchops, and dourvisaged exclamations like "There are laws against that sort of behavior, sirrah." The trouble...
...samples of V8 Splash Fruit Medley, it became the top-selling flavor, according to Field Trip Factory. In another case, sales of children's toothpaste shot up 18%. "These field trips are nothing more than a way to clobber a captive audience of impressionable children with ads," says Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a watchdog group. But Abbie Levi, whose daughter Sarah asked for a hamster after attending the Petco field trip, says simply, "Parents have the power to say no." Easier said than done. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen. With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
...more satisfying was a private meeting with McGeorge Bundy, Jerome Weisner, Theodore Sorenson, and Mark Ruskin at the White House. Goldmark reported: "We were given a chance to discuss some of our proposals. We emerged much more sure of ourselves, because the Administration is apparently planning to employ some of the initiative we are suggesting...
...commodities. China purchased some 20% of the world's copper last year, compared with 5% in 1990. This demand pushes prices up, but China's capacity is expanding in step, keeping a lid on the price of finished goods. "China works both sides of the equation," says Alan Ruskin, managing director of 4Cast Inc., an economic-research firm. Expect the Fed to apply the brakes if needed. Says Ruskin: "Today companies have more confidence in the inflation-fighting credentials of central banks, so expectations tend to be subdued...
...impact on campus and off,” says Ruskin. “The idea that people cared about what we had to say was astounding...