Word: ruskins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pamela M. Ruskin '79, coordinator of the music "orgy" and general manager of WHRB, said yesterday musicians were not paid for ther performances at the festival. The orgy was funded through soft drink and T-shirt sales at the festival, she added...
Bachman, a discerning student of English with an M.A. from the University of Chicago, approached her work with firm opinions. "My assumption," she once said, "is that the standard of literate English still goes back to Victorian English, and that people who haven't read Darwin, Ruskin, Dickens and Thackeray don't have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese...
...enduring strengths is precisely its reliance on the profit motive which, like it or not, is a powerful human drive. To many idealists the primacy of the profit motive has long seemed to be a sanctification of selfishness that produces a brutalizing, beggar-thy-neighbor society. Victorian Moralist John Ruskin denounced "the deliberate blasphemy of Adam Smith: Thou shalt hate the Lord thy God, damn His laws, and covet thy neighbour's goods...
Turner, despite his taciturn and obstinate gruffness, could be pricked to tears by a stupid notice. "Soapsuds and whitewash!" he complained to Ruskin. "I wonder what they think the sea's like? I wish they'd been in it!" Turner's most Leonardesque aspect was the deep pessimism that went with his long investigation of nature. In the works of his maturity, human life is merely an eddy in elemental time. His love of full-bore catastrophe is indicated by the most Turneresque of all his titles, an Alpine scene: Snowstorm, Avalanche and Inundation...
...Smith's effort to make it work was an integral part of American art history. Greenberg's decision to posthumously destroy the evidence of what he considered Smith's "failure" was, one must in charity assume, directed by sincere aesthetic motives - just as John Ruskin's posthumous burning of "pornographic" watercolors by J.M.W. Turner in the 19th century was sincerely meant to protect Turner's moral reputation...