Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skin & Bones. Mies has designed for Illinois Tech a striking, one-story glass-and-steel box, in which his theories are given full expression. The new building, to be ready next summer, achieves Mies's "universal space" by having a 120-ft. by 220-ft. area completely free of...
Burnooses & Spies. When East Berlin turned out to welcome the Soviet troupe after its scheduled Paris appearance had been canceled (TIME, May 24), there was at least as much oratory and red-flagwaving as on that day in St. Petersburg. East Berlin's Friedrichstadt Palast theater was jammed to...
(See Cover) When he advances, greasy with makeup, to his daily toil, a motion-picture actor is engulfed-profile, esthetic sensibilities and nervous stomach-in an atmosphere depressingly reminiscent of a submarine dockyard. The sound stage in which he works is as cavernous and gloomy as a wharfside warehouse. The...
Candlelight, flowers and wine at mealtime are good for the stomach as well as the soul. Aside from their esthetic value, they lead to proper eating habits and good digestion, reported Chicago Physiologist Frederic Theodore Jung in Today's Health.
The Grand Canal of Venice is the most spectacular of all municipal thoroughfares. Graceful gondolas and chugging motorboats travel its waters, and its banks are lined with great pink-tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venice-lovers were engaged...