Word: ruskinism
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...film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
...Observe," said Ruskin, "that what this impressionable person does draw she draws as like as she can. . . . You can't every day, for instance, see a baby thrown into a basket of roses; but when she has once pleasantly invented that arrangement for you, baby is as like baby and rose as like rose as she can possibly draw them . . . they are blissful just in the degree that they are natural; the fairyland that she creates for you is not beyond the sky nor beneath the sea, but near you, even at your doors...
...advanced to the quarter-finals of the singles tourney. B. A. Cameron downed Bob Ruskin 6-2, 6-2, Dick May-field defeated David Young, 6-1, 6-2; Ted Boericke defeated R. T. Dolloff, 6-1, 6-2; T. Nygaard downed D. Gifford, 6-0, 6-1; L. D. Baskin defeated W. L. Kraus, 6-2, 6-2; and R. VonBlon advanced through...
...Gandhi has read many a book. In his autobiography, where he called Tolstoy's book on of the two most important in his life, he wrote: "The one book that brought about an instantaneous and practical transformation in my life was [Ruskin's] Unto This Last...
...awards have been made this year of the Jeremy Belknap, Bohemian Club, Francis Boott, Circolo Italiano, Louis Curtis, Dante, Harvard Monthly, George Arthur Knight, and Ruskin Prizes, nor of the first prize in the Susan B. Anthony award in Comparative Literature...