Word: aestheticize
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In some forms of ancient Japanese theater, a skinny red stripe on the stage is all that separates heaven from hell. For decades, Japan's fashion designers have treated the thin glass of their storefront windows as an equally inviolate divider, cleaving the cool, exclusionary aesthetic of their boutiques from...
She says that hip-hop’s place in popular culture and its aesthetic basis on the notion of “flow,” or dynamic change, make it a uniquely difficult subject for academia to keep up with.
In a different vein altogether, San Diego State University Professor of Poetry Marilyn Chin said she is looking forward to using the resources of Harvard’s Yenching Library as she works “trying to meld the two different types of love poems and...bridging East and...
But this claim is fallacious and damaging. There are other measures of worth besides usefulness to society, but even if we accept society’s benefit as the primary measure of worth, the humanities have much to offer. Seeing beauty in the world sparks the desire to create; seeing...
She questioned the idea that getting rid of the railyard would have any benefits beyond the aesthetic.