Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Present day America offers an almost unexampled field for architectural development. A true American type of commercial structure has been evolved since the war, and in almost every field of architecture the expansion of the city and of the nation offers new and broader opportunities for American talent. Harvard, combining...
For the musically inclined, there will be a new musical comedy as well. "Carry On" with Jack Donahue in the leading part will be at the Shubert beginning next Monday. The Albertina Rasch girls make a skillful chorus, while Lily Damita is a convert from the movies who will try...
"Poetical values are, after all, values, in a human life," he continued. "You cannot mark them off from other human values, as though the nature of man were built in bulkheads; as though there were a department of poetry hermetically sealed, a kind of padded room of aesthetic so effectively...
This article does not intend to imply that as far as cultural standards are concerned there is nothing more to be asked. Far from that! It wishes only to assert that the doldrums of low aesthetic standards (for lack of a better term) are by no means a permanent condition...
Its basic principle of decentralization, its independence of power resources, electric light, its amazingly simplified practicality in the perfection of detail has convinced many of the most obdurate, and has frightened many of the most farseeing. For in its widest implication the Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It...