Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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> On the possible dangers of the methox-salen suntan pills, Meloxine and Oxsoralen (TIME, Aug. 4), the A.M.A. declared: "No one knows what will happen to the skin when courses of methoxsalen and sun exposures are repeated once, twice, or oftener each year for many years. Nor is it yet...
Taste for Gingerbread. Some Muscovites were astonished, some were critical, and all who came seemed interested. A group of women construction engineers found the simple, graceful lines of modern architecture distasteful, said they preferred Russian gingerbread. They failed to find esthetic interest in chimneys or fireplaces, passed them off as...
What emerges if these four types are added together? Dadaism, surrealism, stream-of-consciousness-ism and many another esthetic "ism" spring, obviously. from sources akin to those of Rousseau, Satie, Jarry and Apollinaire. Author Shattuck tries hard-and on the whole unsuccessfully-to cram all these tricks into a single...
In a villa above the town, he is working on a new opera scheduled for production at Brussels which he hopes will give him the cash to "pay my personal bills." But his real concern is that the festival will succeed enough to be repeated. If that happens, Spoleto will...
The clear, sun-washed air of Greece, where the word democracy was first heard, has been ringing for two months with the campaign cries of politicians. In small cafeés through the countryside, customers have looked up from their timeless card games and eternal sipping of Turkish coffee and...