Word: aestheticism
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Thanks to Mohammed A. El-Erian, HMC’s soon-departing president and CEO, HMC has been making a concerted effort to be more open. In a letter to investors two months ago, El-Erian wrote that “many of you have told us that [?...
Any casual observer of President Drew G. Faust’s installation ceremony could not help but chuckle at the aesthetic incoherence of the Brahmin formalities interspersed with multicultural drum and jazz numbers. The attempt to merge harmoniously Harvard tradition and international diversity into a single program, with its discordant...
Yet somehow, Hartnett can’t deliver. And this, really, is the tragedy of the film: Hartnett, the heartthrob of our high-school years (remember him in “Pearl Harbor”? So handsome. Remember him in “40 Days and 40 Nights?...
Peña, who held minor roles in “Crash” and “Babel,” agreed. “There are a bunch of bright minds here. I dropped out of high school, so I don’t even know what your...
Rorty compares Nabokov, the author of aesthetic bliss who despised all vulgar political propaganda and “topical trash,” with Orwell, the earnest, morally courageous author of clumsy allegories. He bases his ideal of the “liberal ironist” on this opposition, confronting...