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...Brigadier General Robert Candee, 50. is chief of Ground Air Support, reads Ruskin before breakfast, is an expert grammarian, is often called "poker face." Officers jump when he speaks, learn well when he teaches his ground-air coordination specialty. ^Bespectacled Major General Walter...
...together in 1848 as "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," to defy academism by returning for inspiration to the freshness of Botticelli, Mantegna and other predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color...
...John Ruskin, when consulted, declared that Bertie should be taught that "one of the principal duties of Princes was to provide for the preservation of perishing frescoes and monuments." So he visited Rome, which had plenty of such objects, "many of them in a suitably perishing condition." They only gave Bertie fits of temper. But in the studio of John Gibson, R.A., "he was much struck by three portraits of a beautiful Italian woman...
...idea of work camps has distinguished parentage. Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin advocated them, and William James, in The Moral Equivalent of War, proposed in 1910 that all youths be conscripted as an "army enlisted against nature . . . to get the childishness knocked out of them and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas." First work camp was organized in northern France in 1920 by Pierre Ceresole, a Swiss pacifist. By 1931 Republican Germany had 280,000 youths enrolled in Government-subsidized work camps; Adolf Hitler expanded them into the Nazi labor service...
Jerome H. Buckley, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a second-year graduate student in English, won the Ruskin Prize, awarded for the best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin. Buckley wrote an essay on "Ruskin Versus Whistler...