Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The three electronic pieces also have a preoccupation with free progression, but in this music the movement remains "surprises" and goes no further. The aesthetic ideas of these composers aside, such unpurposeful repetition of sounds (unpurposeful to my ear at least) is simply dull. This is particularly true of John...
Miss Cummin suspects that the College's real objection may be aesthetic. Before she decorated it, she said, the room was a "stringy, dirty hair, rainy Monday morning grey." Miss Cummin, who has offered to do any fireproofing the College requires, says she enjoys studying in the room, and that...
Friction leads to abrasion, contusion to concussion, laceration to impalement, dismemberment to disembowelment. We are witness to animals in an arena; and we watch the performance of picadors, banderilleros, and matadors, complete with a climactic, mortal moment-of-truth. The play is, in fact, perhaps best analyzed in terms of...
Stevens is not a great poet in the sense that Eliot and Yeats are great poets, because his work lacks attention to poetry's first domain-the land that lies, in the words of Critic G. S. Fraser, between "aesthetic perception and philosophical reflection on it." Reading "The Snow...
The technical correctness of shapes imposed by physical law, Nervi maintained, constitutes the essential element of the the "'style of truth'" to which man's aesthetic sense instinctively responds.