Word: estheticism
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Secondly, there is the peculiarly intellectual quality of the game, with its geometric layout and its deep well of tradition. Philip Roth, whose new book The Great American Novel concerns the fortunes of a homeless baseball team, recalls: "Not until I got to college and was introduced to literature did...
In their half-whimsical, half-serious catalogue, the literate authors' own highly ambivalent feelings about the art of rhetoric emerge: "It is the bag of crafty tricks for common word-mongers; it is the sublime esthetic for the consummate orator." That plainly smacks of enthymeme ("out of the seeming...
Pennsylvania Attorney General J. Shane Creamer, who calls it a "cash register in the sky," is fighting Ottenstein through the courts. Although Gettysburg has no zoning laws, Creamer bases his case on a recent state constitutional amendment intended to assure the citizenry of its right to "the preservation of the...
Indeed, Cyril's single-minded pursuit of pleasure--matched by Fiona's overwhelming (yet apparently insufficient) sensuality--and the almost grotesque immersion they seek in sex are fully compatible with the claims of the setting. But the resulting demands are so intense, the sex esthetic so jealous of other considerations...
THE foolishness of the rest of Three Thirty-Five is all-pervading. From the table of contents, one can see that it is divided into five sections. Reading the book itself, though, it is generally unclear where different secions begin and end, and this gets at one of Three Thirty...