Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worm-eaten Met. So the younger generation would not get any too-daring ideas, former Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov, now Central Committee secretary, appeared to remind everyone of the "irreconcilable struggle against degrading musical art of the capitalist world." Shepilov praised "comradely controversy" and "respect for different views," but he...
Esthetic considerations are actually of secondary importance in this problem, Keats feels. The damage that is being done is psychological and sociological, for the housing developments as a rule lack the most basic elements of a real community. They are absolutely nonself-sufficient. They are gigantic bedrooms where women and...
There seem to be at least three basic techniques for beating the system--the social, the athletic, and the esthetic. The simplest version of the social is to change one's name to Saltonstall or Roosevelt (Teddy's side, of course) and let the interviewer worry about the rest. A...
The most challenging approach is the esthetic as it requires a deep understanding of admission's policy psychology. Harvard wants the young men of today who will be tomorrow's old literary lions. With a fiery and mildly turbercular look in the eye, a copy of Keats beneath the arm...
Aside from their esthetic merits, the four stories give heartening evidence that mutiny is in the making aboard Italy's censorship. In 1952, complaining that the neorealist school of moviemakers had formed a gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its...