Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agnes had her dancing debut in the late '20s, in the days when Martha Graham was pioneering modern dance. Agnes was soon a close admirer of that fiercely esthetic priestess, but she never became an acolyte. It has been the distinction of Dancer de Mille's career that...
Impresario Hurok, whose eyes are seldom shut, has a more-than-esthetic interest in Miss Munsel. Eight years ago, listening at his radio one afternoon to the Met Auditions of the Air, he heard 17-year-old Patrice singing coloratura arpeggios in a voice as full of rills as a...
What should an architect try to do, anyway? Said Lancaster: "The role of the architect lies between that of the plumber and the sculptor, but seldom midway. If, like the majority of 19th Century architects, he is an esthetic snob, he will get as close to the sculptor as he...
"What we have, then, is not a building expressive of the purposes of the United Nations, but an extremely fragile esthetic achievement, whose main lines conform to the ideals of a boom period of shaky finance and large-scale speculation . . . As a conscious symbol, the Secretariat adds up to zero...
Trying Too Hard. Marcelle Gallois seemed like countless other would-be painters of the day. What brought her to the Benedictines was a combination of esthetic and religious feelings that for years left her vocation in doubt. She describes a memorable Easter-week visit, at the age of 23, to...