Word: ruskinism
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...Crimson found a new left halfback in in Ruskin McIntosh, who played well in his first game...
Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement have a striking similarity. Last Week, in a talk over the BBC's polysyllabic Third Program, Critic Lancaster charged that both schools rode their horses too hard...
...voyage, the Tribesman's first port of call will be Belém, Brazil. After carrying another group of South American-bound missionaries from Miami, she will return to the West Coast for a voyage to Japan. "I wish I could go, too," said New Tribes Director John Ruskin Garber last week. "This is our simple way of doing the Lord's work. Our philosophy is: if you have something good, you want to share...
...triumphant old age, Turner took into his province such formless things as snow, wind, mist and sunlight, painted them with a radiance that has not yet been surpassed. As a young art critic, John Ruskin saw their greatness, but most of Turner's fellow academicians did not. Because Turner dared paint sunsets as they really look, and because toward the end he cared not a hoot for composition, he was accused of tastelessness. He still is, but good taste remains a refuge of minor artists, one Turner had no need...
...Ruskin was sharp eyed, enthusiastic and 21 when he first met Turner. He hurried home and wrote in his diary: "Introduced today to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge . . . I found in him a somewhat eccentric, keen-mannered, matter-of-fact, English-minded gentleman...