Word: ruskinism
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James McNeill Whistler's stock was going up. Bought from a Manhattan dealer by the Detroit Institute of Arts was the waspish Victorian dandy's famed Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket-the splattery nightscape that moved John Ruskin to a crack about "a coxcomb flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." (Bad Boy Whistler sued Ruskin for libel, won a farthing's damages.) Asking price for Nocturne that year (1875) was $1,000. Price reportedly paid by Detroit...
...about a month before the invasion of Okinawa was to take place when we took the Marines aboard for our trip to the beachhead. The chaplain attached to these Marines was John Ruskin Clark. It was on this trip that I saw and heard the tops of all chaplains. This month just prior to Easter was a long and trying one, and Clark made each service...
...dangerous mission! That was an Easter parade I shall never forget, and ex-Chaplain Clark will forever be my hero of the Battle of Okinawa. Perhaps the combat photographers would prefer men kneeling at confession, but men in need of spiritual and physical help will always prefer a John Ruskin Clark...
...question popped up again & again: "Is it true that the Roman Catholic chaplains were better men and did a better job in the service than Protestants?" In last week's Christian Century, ex-Navy Chaplain John Ruskin Clark, who served with the Marines, gave an answer that underscored a long-term Protestant problem-for peace as well as war. Excerpts...
There was indeed humble English earthiness in the 19th Century's John Constable, who spent most of his life in the country, kept his eyes fixed on the beautiful. Wrote Critic Ruskin scornfully: "Constable perceives . . . that grass is wet, the meadows flat, and the boughs shady; about as much as . . . might in general be apprehended, between them, by an intelligent faun and a skylark." But Constable had enough faunlike intelligence and skylark blitheness to make him Britain's classic landscape painter...