Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most people regard most paintings with total apathy if they regard them at all. Most painters decry this inattention; some will even admit that in this day their art has become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at...
The Crime Club is not a drink, a name for Tier 44 in the east wing at Leavenworth, or the latest headline symbolism for the first half of the Yankee batting order. The Crime Club is the Literary Guild idea, restricted, to the less aesthetic paths of murder, rape and...
Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist. He included in this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear...
Before long, his keen and roving eye for the aesthetic beauty of the female figure caused him to enlarge the focus of his attention. He produced a dignified operetta called The Red Feather and another more sprightly beauty show called Mile, Fifi. His first wife was Anna Held, who starred...
Back in 1915 the first Freshman Jubilee was held in order that the enthusiastic male choruses of Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls might vent their vocal jubilation for the benefit of mothers, sisters, and other relatives. The affair' was aesthetic in every sense. First, the Freshman orchestra would play "Nearer...