Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With less emotion and more judgment, top architects, including Eero Saarinen and M.I.T.'s Pietro Belluschi, enthusiastically praised the originality and appropriateness of the chapel. The House, by a vote of 102 to 53, took a stand against the architects. Next day the House reversed itself and approved the...
The University of Texas' Professor of Education Frederick Eby, 82, white-maned elder statesman of Texas public education, father ("Well, maybe baby sitter") of the state's junior colleges, lifetime opponent of the teachings of Philosopher John Dewey. While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896...
Distasteful as it was to both parties, this alliance survived until the day not long ago when La Pira pressed the council to approve his long-cherished scheme for construction of a "satellite city" which would house 12,000 Florentines who now live either in slums or on the streets...
Britain's art circles, as well as common folk beyond the esthetic perimeters, were stewing and snarling about a 6-ft. portrait of Prince Philip, the work of Italy's able Pietro Annigoni and the most debated sensation of the Royal Academy's new exhibition. Cried the...
More than 600,000 tourists swarmed into Washington to enjoy the esthetic pleasures of the Japanese cherry blossoms. Massachusetts' Republican Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, moved by the daffodils on her House Restaurant table, arose to exclaim: "They were like sunshine, and gladdened our eyes and hearts." The President of...