Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The new dogma of equality of results turns up some bizarre arguments. In his recent book More Equality, Herbert J. Gans, a Columbia University sociologist, draws up a scenario for "cultural equality" that would eliminate "invidious status and other distinctions between 'highbrow,' 'middlebrow' and 'lowbrow...
Font of Truth. Catholic Theologian David Tracy, writing in a recent issue of the Christian Century, recalls the period somewhat ruefully: "Has Einstein spoken? Fine, but really-if you look hard and long enough, it's all there in Aquinas. Are you looking for an aesthetic or political theory...
Banality and Bliss. The truth of certain maxims once thought demode and elitist now reasserts itself: for instance, that a posture of cool boredom can in itself become boring; that a perfunctory infatuation with the signs and portents of "masscult" means nothing unless it is subjected-as by Oldenburg-to...
The changes in the library design will have a beneficial aesthetic effect on the complex, Moulton said.
Where does this leave the bicyclist in Cambridge? If not with physical superiority to all the automobiles, at least with a distinct aesthetic superiority. While an automobile is a true pig among vehicles, a bicyclist can go farther with less energy than anything else, manmade or natural. What with the...