Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soil for the Future. Obviously, the James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theatre has more the air of group therapy than it does of legitimate theater. But it would be a mistake to dismiss it as some sort of peripheral fad. The true purpose of the avant-garde is to provide the...
I'm real glad you asked that. The biggest problem that I've had with the Board of Education and the parents of the kids is that they become immediately fearful that I'm presenting such a romantic picture of the theatre-you know, with the bright lights and the...
Ecologist LaMont Cole raises the crowding problem. Since 80% of the population is likely to live in cities occupying only 2% of the land, the sheer density of people will strain what might be called the urban ecosystem. Asks Cole: "Are we selecting for genetic types only those who can...
Naturally enough, one of the many sponsors of In Transit is James Joyce, "my great Triestine compalien, the comedichameleon, the old pun gent himself." The punning and the aesthetic trinity of Evelyn Hilary, the fictional "I" and Miss Brophy herself persist with vengeful logic to the very end. There, on...
The New York Times's Charlotte Curtis, whose typewriter can deliver deft malice, was also in the crowd. Next morning she published some ludicrous exchanges-which Bernstein denies-between the field marshal of the pig-baiters and the aesthetic doge of the Upper East Side.