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Virtually every great composer has given up some blood to the critics' gantlet. John Ruskin (whose true critical specialty was art) described Beethoven's music as sounding like "the upsetting of bags of nails." Chopin's music was damned in its entirety by London's Musical World as "ranting hyperbole and excruciating cacophony." Tchaikovsky was assured by the Boston Evening Transcript that his new Fifth Symphony was "pandemonium, delerium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded." And Tchaikovsky himself was not above recording a terse opinion about Brahms: "That scoundrel . . . What a giftless bastard...
Vintage Vintner. In Italian Swiss Colony, Petri got one of the oldest vintage winemakers in the U.S. Founded in 1881 by Genoa-born Andrea Sbarbaro as a collectivist colony modeled after the cooperative theories of John Ruskin and Robert Owen, Italian Swiss Colony's skilled winemakers gained a reputation for fine dry wines. Although it still makes dry table wines, the bulk of Italian Swiss Colony's output is now sweet dessert wines, which are easier to make, and appeal more to American palates...
...knew and hated him, he believes. Yet sometimes, in their night passages, they would trundle through his camp, passing not six feet from where he lay marveling and afraid, and move on without ruffling a hair of his head or touching a stick of his equipment. Apparently, as John Ruskin once concluded, the great animals have a susceptibility to "points of honor." Says Oberjohann flatly: "They never attack a human being while he is asleep...
Weems' overtime goal put the Yard-down with a three win, four loss record, and gave Yale a four win, three loss season. Outstanding for the visitors were fullbacks Alex Haegler and Charlie Welse and halfback Ruskin McIntosh, while McQuarrie and goalie Rudd Barrett starred for Yale...
...season proved the halfback line of Charlie Safford, Mac Quarrie, and John Howson is the mainstay of the Blue team. Crimson coach Andrew "Poley" Guyda has shuffled his lineup to give Captain Mauricio Toro a chance to score at left inside. Alex Haegler moves back to fullback, while Ruskin Mcintosh will take left half and Charles Jobbins will shirt to center half...