Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chain Store Scion Huntington (A. & P.) Hartford, 48, quietly mimeographed word that he has acquired the bulk of a coral isle in the Bahamas, just off the city of Nassau. On Philanthropist Hartford's program: to develop the place as a vacation paradise for "people of quality from all...
The Papa of Dada. Harold Loeb changed more patterns than most. His father was a Wall Street broker, his mother a Guggenheim. Like his cousin Peggy Guggenheim, Harold found the climate of wealth intellectually suffocating, the security guilt-edged. After working in a construction gang in Alberta and tending a...
Virtue in Curves. For Torroja, the beauty of structure grows out of the mathematical laws that express the flow of stresses and tensions. "For the first time in the history of art," says Torroja, "the structure has acquired an independent personality, so that its own intimate esthetic quality can be...
In "Say Something About Students . . .," the first essay, section man Morton Levine complains that Harvard students are more concerned with originality than they are with scholarship. (If this be true, there are many, verily, hordes, who have wasted the best years of their lives in the stacks of Widener--studying...
"Art is important only if it essays to be important. If it adopts the manners and philosophy and outlook of a minor expression, then a minor expression it will be. If it aspires to an esthetic of doubletalk, just that will be its position, nothing more, and life itself will...