Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As a counter-example, Cousteau mentioned that Algeria's socialist government is accepting the short-term expense of sound ecological management in view of its long-term economic, moral, and aesthetic benefits.
...fair, this spoof on late Victorian aestheticism and its pretentiously empyrean devotees is not sterling Gilbert & Sullivan. Patiencedoes have its share of Gilbertian humor, mostly deriving from the parody of aesthetic attitudinizing, and its plot is powered by the usual sort of Gilbertian paradox--in this case, an identification of love with duty which brands the love of anything worth loving as undutiful. But it lacks the consistently memorable score that distinguishes Pirates of Penzance, for example, or the brilliant comic sequences which make Iolanthea favorite...
Providence begins with a sequence of shots pilfered from Citizen Kane,with the camera leisurely examining the narrator's estate (the "Providence" of the title), and then cutting to a hand dropping a wine glass. Hands, cut off from the bodies they are supposed to serve, recur repeatedly in the...
The situation polarizes at two extremes: private industry either lavishes millions on its monuments or builds stark architecture of an economic functionality lacking social or aesthetic merit. The practice of monument construction is best expressed in the new Federal Reserve Building, by Hugh Stubbins and Associates, which follows the Hancock...
Field does not attempt to give pragmatic justifications for astronomy, although he does credit astronomy with starting the industrial revolution. He says astronomy provided the realization you could predict natural events--it offered "a few equations that had fantastic implications." But Field chiefly justifies the Center's work in romantic...