Word: ruskins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to hear smart stuff, you can go listen to some Harvard professor mouth off for an hour in Low Lec. If that's your notion of a good time. There are faculty members who doubtless have some extremely intricate, perhaps even brilliant, perceptions into the essays of John Ruskin and Walter Pater to tell you about. Big deal. Has any professor ever made you feel like dancing? made you happy or sad? talked to you as though you were a human being with feelings and problems? Fat chance. Maybe if you're married to one. Maybe. Most...
...Feild is a proud possessor of one Turner landscape engraving entitled "Peat Moss of Scotland." He explains its long pedigree. Turner gave it to Ruskin who presented it to Charles Eliot Norton. From Charles Norton it passed to Denman Ross, who gave it to Arthur Pope, a noted Fogg professor and Mr. Feild's one-time boss, during the years Mr. Feild taught the principles of drawing and design at Harvard. Mr. Pope gave it to Mr. Feild, his student and colleague. It seems particularly moving and fitting that this gentle artist and teacher with an independent and fighting spirit...
From Charles Eliot Norton's art lectures at Harvard, she learned of John Ruskin- his exultation of the natural and living architecture. Thus today, her grand home in the Fenway overflows with spring flowers every year- orange nasturtiums cascade from the upper stories into the sky-lighted courtyard splashed with daffodils, orchids, and lillies...
...worst enemies are those who are thought to maintain their power and prerogatives with self-deluding and unctuous paternalism. Millett singles out 19th century chivalry, particularly as it is enshrined in the works of Tennyson and Ruskin. Like other feminist writers, Millett views such legends of feminine evil as Pandora's Box and the fall from Eden as basic instruments of patriarchal power. The etiquette of courtly and romantic love is also interpreted as a male method of emotionally manipulating and exploiting women, "since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity...