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Word: aestheticize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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To the Fine Arts department, then, the academic value of F.A. 16 and 18, is not to put too fine a point on it, almost negligible. Sydney Freedberg, the chairman of the department, goes so far as to say that the studio courses give a Fine Arts concentrator "no aesthetic...

Author: By Cennino Cennini, | Title: Scholars and Painters | 2/10/1962 | See Source »

After a time his voice rather gets on your nerves, even though an impersonal tone is perhaps just right for this kind of poetry. Much of Eliot's violent and intellectually lush symbolism really is a way of escaping from the whirr and bang of feelings into an impersonal, almost...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: T. S. Eliot | 12/6/1961 | See Source »

There are cynics, no doubt, who have believed that the addition of several murky pastel shades to the architectural embellishments of Radcliffe's dorms--metamorphosing the Quad into something resembling a child's building block set--would forever remain the sole achievement of Mrs. Bunting's new house system. However...

Author: By Michael S. Gruen, | Title: Radcliffe Art Exhibit | 11/20/1961 | See Source »

The mention of the economic aspects of hyperbolic paraboloid design is characteristic of Mr. Candela, an essentially pragmatic man. He rarely mentions one of his work's objects-aesthetic appeal, without bringing up the other-practicality. One cannot talk with Mr. Candela for more than about ten minutes without sensing...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Felix Candela | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

The aesthetic of this bizarre novel, smells and textures and tastes, has a unique quality. For example, Peterson and the fly both consider merde the most understandable word in the French language. "Renew'd by ordure's sympathetic force,/As oil'd with magic juices for the course,/Vigorous he...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: A Fly in the Pigment | 9/30/1961 | See Source »

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