Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After finishing A Different Person, I wished for more of the first and third, and for much less of the second. In the sense in which "gossipy, though there are some wonderful anecdotes about acquaintances who later became as famous as Merrill, or more famous: the young Alison Lurie, the...
No Black son or daughter of Harvard has ever before been given what might be called an "intellectual memorial" by our University. The aesthetic caliber of the program was awesome, executed mainly by empathetically skillful readers of selections from DuBois' great American text--The Souls of Black Folk--especially the...
The awesome aesthetic reach of Sunday's "intellectual memorial" for W.E.B. DuBois owed much as well to the voices of Walter Robinson and Co. These voices proved more than equal to the haunting and soulful beauty of what DuBois deftly called the "Sorrow Songs"--the Negro Spirituals. The Singer of...
One of the commission's proposals would increase lighting outside the square's historic buildings to provide aesthetic unity. Assistant City Manager Michael Rosenberg said he is consulting with the city's electrician and plans to begin this project in the spring.
A Life in the Theatre remains, as it was on stage, a two-hander between a veteran actor (Lemmon) who never quite made it and a protege (Matthew Broderick) whose star is beginning to rise. Mamet has opened up the work shrewdly, placing the two men among backstage colleagues, on...