Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Smith African term for the entourage of exquisite and esthetic voting Oxonians who accompanied the late Lord Milner to his post of South African High Commissioner after the Boer War and profoundly astonished the colonists.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner). A year ago Director Max Reinhardt took his famed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Hollywood Bowl. Its reception there impressed upon Cineman Jack Warner a fact long familiar to stage impresarios: although most people may doze through...
Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist.
We have an unsuspected and forgotten wealth of esthetic material in our college buildings--especially in those of Colonial and Early Republican times. In it, we can enjoy and compare a bewildering variety of artistic values. Fascinating, colorful connections come to light between the buildings and their builders with the...
Over and above petty infractions of community rules which may be settled by fines or minor purifications, there are certain great crimes which are so rarely committed as to be considered abnormalities and hence generators of baleful influences which may affect a whole village. Among various tribes such horrendous offenses...