Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That won't reassure traditionalists, who argue that writing simply can't be reduced to rigid adjective plus subject plus verb formulations. "This is all part of a long-term approach to mind as machine," says David Schaafsma, professor of English education at Teachers College of Columbia University. "Writing is...
Just as folk has handled even its most disconnected moments, Club Passim quietly thrives in the Palmer Street alley, watching Harvard Square grow up and retaliate against itself. Its folk platform has become "Americana," a broad, historically oriented aesthetic that unfortunately seems neither to play to the young nor to...
Comparing their performance to other possible performances by ethnic groups, they wrote, "Hindu and Buddhist dances tend to be viewed in Western culture primarily as ethnic dances, rather than religious. Their religiosity does not detract from the aesthetic appreciation of their performances."
In contrast to Harvard's myriad theatrical productions, concerts and coffee-house-readings, there is a distinct paucity of visual art mounted by students for public display. An anomaly in the Harvard art world, the exhibition of student work by Elizabeth Lakshmi Kanter '99 in Eliot Basement reaches a caliber...
All major modern musical forms with roots in the black community--jazz, rock, even gospel--faced criticism early on. Langston Hughes, in 1926, defended the blues and jazz from cultural critics. Hardcore rap has triumphed commercially, in part, because rap's aesthetic of sampling connects it closely to what is...