Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the case of Greenwood's picture, documentary value far outweighs esthetic merit. In others, such as Feke's portrait of Clergyman Hiscox, the balance is kept even. But whether viewed primarily as art or as history, the colonial canvases make an eye-opening display.
In Cologne, Germany, an autocratic, absent-minded composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen has fun supplying the state-run West German Radio with electronic music. Many of the sounds he makes resemble those of the Barrons, but his attitude is at the opposite esthetic pole. A conservatory pupil first, then an electronic...
"Strict functionalism was a necessary purgative," he says, "but after all, there is nothing esthetic about an WOMB CHAIR) enema." Agreeing that modern architecture has won the day, he says: "Now is the time to examine the presuppositions."
¶ A religious outlook is good protection against sudden death on the highways, according to a University of Colorado team headed by Psychologist John J. Conger. The team studied 264 men at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, found that psychologists' scales of values were the best clue...
President Ibáñez, at 78, is still stern, upright and tempestuous. The son of a wealthy landowner, he early learned to sit a horse and boss his father's peons. The landowning politicians of Chile's 19th century- Conservatives who disputed for power with equally conservative...