Word: ruskins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS is an attractive volume. Many skillful illustrations--the original woodcuts--snare one in a tangle of detail. And the stories reveal the idiosyncracies of their authors more than any standard literary styles in fairy tales. John Ruskin moralizes, while Mark Lemon, the first editor of Punch, comes across very romantically for a man who earned his living by a pointed...
...white duck suit and wide-brimmed hat and sailed for Europe, never to return. In France Whistler began groping toward an impressionistic style that eventually matured in a series of nightscapes he called "Nocturnes." It was just such a painting that got Whistler into trouble with British Critic John Ruskin in 1875. "I have seen, and heard, much of the cockney impudence before now," Ruskin told a gallery director, "but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for slinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a celebrated libel trial, during which the painting...
Mickey, played by Michael Caine, is the definitive hack, the proudly profane author of dozens of paperback thrillers, any one of which would make the novels of Mickey Spillane read like the collected works of John Ruskin. He turns out his books at the rate of 10,000 dictated words per day-just like Erie Stanley Gardner-and markets the finished products under a variety of exotic pseudonyms (like O.R. Gann, "a leading authoress," or "the struggling Nigerian author, S. Odomy"). He also adopts a zealously sleazy lifestyle and a cheap line of patter to fit his chosen profession...
...luggage of all students. There is a volume of Swedenborg, issued in 1868, still damp, as if it had been left on some porch during a summer storm, and warped as the wooden floor of the Maine antique shop where I bought it; a first edition of Ruskin's Unto This Last, small as a wallet, the cardboard covers exposed like a dilapidated wall; d'Annuzio's poems (1901), elegant in a spine of maroon ribbed leather; Edmund Gosse's life of Coventry Patmore, also a first edition; Arthur Symons' London: A Book of Aspects, "privately printed for Edmund...
...lying buried in the rubble), the grief and shame the shots produce are unendurable: It's as if all individuality, all the special human art and love which went into the building of the city have been irrevocably destroyed by what seem like uncontrollable modern forces. Hill is no Ruskin, but his appreciation for medieval images not only is sincere, but makes the Vonnegutian world view even darker. America has always relied more directly than other Western countries on raw nature for its lifeways and philosophies. With our resulting flexibility and vigor, says this film, we've helped kill...