Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROCK AND ROLL, like all other aspects of youth culture, has not been left behind in the advance to nowhere. The music one hears really does seem crummy these days, and it is not because there are fewer individual talents, although that is undoubtedly true. The social content of rock...
Both the theater and the company are products of the lavish if uncertain tastes of ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness, 59. A Standard Oil heiress (courtesy of her late second husband), Mrs. Harkness has had a somewhat tempestuous career as a patron of the arts. Two earlier...
But not all of the problem can be blamed on the studios. Altman finds that there is a reluctance among current audiences to "go for anything that's new and exciting. They sit back and say we can't do anything about it anyway and so just giggle and give...
Mime is the form of dramatic expression that appears to me as being closest to man. It is a complete art in the sense that it tends toward an all-embracing definition of the human being. A mime can come closest to identification with both human being and inanimate objects...
Despite these and other longueurs, this is a worthy show. Alloway has succeeded where many previous critics failed, by clarifying the issues of pop and reminding us that the time of generalization is past. There is no honest way of rejecting or accepting the whole of pop, but it is...