Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This post-creativity view dominates nearly everything: film; music (from rap, with its "samples," to modern "serious" music--now lacking melody, harmony and any recognizable patterns, each composer racing to "create" a new sound before everything possible was exhausted); poetry (stripped of all structure now for the same reason); literature...
Citizen after citizen spoke about the aesthetic importance of neighborhood character and said that they vehemently supported the proposed Arsenal Square extension of the Old Cambridge Historic District, which would mandate the preservation of the buildings on the hotel's proposed site.
Workers say they even develop a certain fast food aesthetic.
"John Coolidge was the soul of courtesy," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a statement. "He also embodied an aesthetic taste and intellectual style which combined New English naturalness with the cultivation of a well-traveled and well trained eye and mind."
"[As a result of the conference] I was brought to think more about Keats' political and aesthetic principles and also about his constant echoing of Shakespeare," she said. "I think it's always important to remind ourselves why poets like Keats remain perpetual objects of studies for so many centuries...