Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since their foremost concern is themselves-and the place they will have in society-they seem to read less for esthetic pleasure than for answers. They still study, though they do not imitate, such erstwhile heroes as Hemingway and Joyce, but the nearest thing they have to a U.S. literary...
No one can deny, the Pope continued, that there is such a thing as fashion that is "shameless, which causes perturbation in ordered spirits and may be an incentive to evil." Such fashions are bad, however esthetic they may be. Man "quickly notices hidden shamelessness and seduction . . . Although creators of...
Last week Engineer Nervi's latest building, Rome's Palazzetto dello Sport (see color pages) was in full operation with a solid calendar of basketball games, boxing matches and fencing competitions. Neither the appreciative spectators, gazing at the soaring, concrete-ribbed dome free of any obstructing pillars, nor...
Living up to this philosophy, Nervi has won his commissions not for esthetic reasons but through his ability to undercut his competitors, make records in construction time. His stadium in Florence, seating 35,000, cost only $2.90 per seat to build; recently he put up a three-story factory in...
Dealers round the world are now wondering when Niarchos will begin culling out the Robinsons' collection. Niarchos himself has admitted he wanted only "seven or eight paintings," bought the whole lot to get them. But instead of unloading, Niarchos keeps buying. Why? Says Niarchos, "I collect for the pleasure...