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Died. John Walter Ruskin, 82, second cousin of Victorian Tastemaker John Ruskin, who became an explorer to meet a stipulation in his father's will that he must spend a substantial inheritance entirely on world travel; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Charlottesville, Va. Among Dr. Ruskin's involuntary travels: a 4½-year investigation of Baffin Island's "white Eskimos," whom he decided were descendants of marooned Norwegian explorers...
...wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...
Perhaps the best thing about Berenson is that he communicates his pleasure so vividly. As a prose stylist, he approaches the great aestheticians of the past--Burke, Reynolds, Ruskin. He has the perfect control of a balanced sentence and a splendidly colorful use of words; in short, he is a master of rhythmic evocative prose...
...Daily Mail. Then Madame Tussaud's put on view a waxworks figure of Tony Armstrong-Jones in a hands-behind-the-back posture that he had borrowed from Prince Philip-who no longer uses it. On top of that, the Royal Academy rejected a portrait by Artist Ruskin Spear called Princess Margaret Catches the Night Train to Balmoral, which was described as a somewhat "satirical caricature...
Thus, in 1853, English Critic John Ruskin lectured an Edinburgh audience. The popular concept that the roof is the very essence of architecture became so deeply ingrained that Louis Sullivan, Chicago's famed skyscraper builder, felt it necessary to crown his tall buildings with huge, floriated lids. Frank Lloyd Wright made the roof the dominating motif of his houses. But as modern architects worked away at the box-on-stilts ideal, the roof all but disappeared from view...