Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The idea of a "machine-made house" may not be accepted quickly. But Architect Fisher feels that when people see such homes are cheaper, more attractive, more comfortable to live in, prejudice will diminish. He points out that mass-production has increased rather than hurt the functional and esthetic beauty...
Seriously as well as cynically, some Art critics have called plumbing the only immortal U. S. art-form, the country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison...
Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village...
The 21 million automobiles on the road in 1931 were an economic necessity almost as valid as bricks and bread. Almost, but not quite, for the automobile still combines pleasure with necessity. To millions of owners it is their most beautiful and costly possession. Its esthetic appeal is at once...
"Among the human values thus created science ranks with art and religion. In its selfless pursuit of truth, in its vision of order and beauty, it partakes of the quality of both. More and more it is beginning to make a profound esthetic and religious appeal to thinking people. In...