Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader is also probably the Army's best-known hymn writer, with more than 250 to his credit. A verse from one of them (sung to the tune of The Old Rustic Bridge) well sums up his conception of a Salvationist's business...
...Rustic Herbivore. Editor Housman is apologetic about filling it. Most people, when they think of Wordsworth at all, think of him as a rustic herbivore who wrote, among reams of rhymed prose, some 100 sonnets glorifying the Church of England. By some literary freak he also managed to write the Ode on Intimations of Immortality. Then he earned Robert Browning's versified contempt ("Just for a handful of silver he left us") by changing his politics, later becoming poet laureate of England...
Long ago, the Almanac dropped such once-helpful bits as Carriage fares, and Hot Ashes to Resuscitate the Drowned. The style of its Farmer's Calendar has changed with the times ("Follow your markets closely by radio . . ."). But its index is still a key to rustic and rare information: Feasts and Fasts, Movable; Twilight, Length of; Zodiac, Signs...
...even scholars, however, agree on some of Bruegel's details. The matter of the bridegroom in Bruegel's Rustic Wedding (see cut), for instance, has long been a matter of high dispute. Which is he? Viennese Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just...
...paintings: three Monets-River Scene on the Seine "with Barges, Rustic Landscape, Monceau Park; two Sisleys-Seine at Argenteuil, Thames at Hampton Court; Renoir's Woman at her Toilet; Degas' Seated Nude Brushing her Hair; Cezanne's Mont Victoire; Van Gogh...