Word: estheticizing
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Hillbilly Opera. In discussing the search for order, teachers show how this theme is found in such works as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Divine Comedy and Death of a Salesman. To help them understand the difficulties of achieving esthetic order, music students at Garden City have been assigned the problem...
Thirty years ago, when Dos Passos wrote The Big Money, the second novel of the U.S.A. trilogy, a TIME cover story (Aug. 10, 1936) saw him mainly as a valuable contemporary historian, a journalist of genius rather than a novelist-the composer, as Dos Passos puts it now, of "a...
Some now defend the fashion on esthetic grounds. "You have this break between your pants and your shoes," explains a Los Angeles display artist. "Two textures. Why ruin it by sticking a third texture in between?" Others now give the trend Havelock Ellis overtones, agreeing, as one Californian puts it...
"As far as the important art exhibitions are concerned," wrote Canaday, "New York is becoming a cultural backwater. Our smug conviction that we are the art center of the country has only the weakest justification: we are only the center where the most buying and selling of art goes on...
"A distance runner has to love the wind running through his hair. He has to have a distance runner's mentality," Hardin says getting up from the couch. Whatever it is, and it seems to be an odd mixture of the serious and the esthetic, Doug's got it.