Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The audience was not only small, it was perverse. Complained Lasker: "Listeners resented the commercials and even threatened boycotts because their esthetic tastes were offended. The advertisers, therefore, would not support the station."
Last week WBMS lost $700 and the owners had to dip into personal capital to meet the employees' payroll. And Monday the station was obliged by necessity to abandon all attempts at compromise between esthetic and economic considerations. Now it plays almost exclusively "disc jockey" music. Only 350 listeners called...
After asking advice from eminent friends, Boyer decided that a creative scientist must be "an all-round man, not a narrow specialist . . . This type of man is the one best able to leap barriers between fields, to borrow techniques, to synthesize new concepts." Besides many-sidedness, the productive researcher should...
This need and solution as seen in the changing skyline of New York City shows only that the architect has been able to express with complete, esthetic frankness the purpose of the structure. The long lines of glass, stainless steel and brick are fresh and esthetically sound, and do not...
Out of 250 human societies he had studied, 70% permit "sexual experimentation" before marriage, Professor Murdock told the 37th annual meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association, in Manhattan. Anthropologist Murdock wished more power to "socially controlled premarital experimentation." Said he: "The sexual laxity current among our own youth is...