Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the midst of the uninhibited alcoholics who put themselves on display at every football weekend, freshman smoker, and tavern in the Square, a small, rather esoteric group of students who drink purely for esthetic reasons has gone virtually unnoticed.
"Some [pupils] have difficulty verbalizing about the esthetic experience. But often their gropings make for the fresh insight . . . The war on the cliché is continuous, but poetry is not written by mere avoidance of the cliche. Little theorizing about rhythm, but a constant reading aloud to hear rhythms, to...
Last week the city council did summarily dispose of the company's application for permission to build. But this time, many Oxonians doubted that the esthetic victory would hold. With Britain's steel so short, the company had a powerful argument against building a whole new plant in...
A Notion from Nature. The Gropius philosophy embraces pictures as well as walls, furniture as well as floor plans, iceboxes as well as kitchens. It is based on two ideas, one practical and the other esthetic. The practical idea was not at all obvious when Gropius first acted on it...
Three thousand feet below, terrace on terrace, lay the storybook village of Grindelwald, famed as a skier's paradise. The girl whose level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American...