Word: estheticizing
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"It's the wrong building in the wrong place at the wrong time." wailed the chairman of New York City's planning commission, Donald H. Elliott, who is helpless to do anything about it since the project conforms with zoning requirements. Urbanologists pointed out that the new building...
No one is more aware of this situation than Breuer himself, who admits that he would have refused a commission to design Pan Am. But he also recognizes economic imperatives and esthetic realities. With the Pan Am Building, the vistas were gone anyway; the railroad still needed money; and the...
> "What possibly could be the point of the golden chain? That line is just not a natural line of force and makes no esthetic or sexual sense."
Destruction artists try to draw their esthetic justification on an odd mixture -the theories on aggression propounded by Austrian Naturalist Konrad Lorenz, Aristotle's idea of dramatic catharsis, and pop-psych. "We're all very hostile," says Ortiz. "The guy who beats his kid, the wife who has...
Albert Gelpi, assistant professor of English, contributes a chapter from his upcoming book on American poetry--a significant essay which discusses Edgar Allan Poe with a sensitivity and respect that he rarely receives. Authoritatively documented but still highly readable and clear, Gelpi's writing carries the same enthusiastic conviction that...