Word: aestheticize
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Still, the question is worth consideration, at the very least because our silence concedes the point. Since Plato exiled poets from his mythical Republic, humanists have exerted themselves to defend and expound the merits of poetry. Until the 19th century, the consensus was that literature was proper for its moral...
If names drive careers and faces drive personas, we should have sympathy for politicians consigned by countenance to personalities they might not have chosen. As the midterm elections end and presidential hopefuls look ahead to 2008, there are perils for both the lovely and the unlovely. Those easy on the...
Diving into their new album, one is instantly reminded of what defines the Deftones sound: at all possible turns where an uplifting note could appear, instead comes an aesthetic flat comparable to that of Nirvana. This creates a melancholia and an edge in the music, lending an air of unpredictability...
If a middle aged man falls off a seesaw in the middle of a crowded art gallery, does he make a sound? As Ogden T. Ross ’75 and a room full of fellow art enthusiasts recently learned, the answer is yes—he does.After lively opening...
Six and a half centuries ago, John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English. One year ago, a Wyclef Jean concert was cancelled at Harvard University.Wycliffe hoped to reform the Catholic Church. Wyclef, although he never intended to, helped spark a movement to reform another institution: the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC...