Word: estheticizing
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Both Lundy and Rudolph are Harvard-educated and Gropius-trained architects. Both have rebelled against Gropius' group architecture, which stresses teamwork over individual ex pression. Both depart from a trim, easily reproduced machine esthetic, and both are influenced by that archromantic, Frank Lloyd Wright, who never would put up...
> PHILADELPHIA. Penn's Landing has been called the "Gateway to Philadelphia." It was there that William Penn landed in 1682 to found the City of Brotherly Love. But now the gateway is to be cut off from the rest of the city by a freeway carried on 22-ft...
Founded in 1878 by the Alabama Colored Baptist Convention as a theological school, Selma had evolved mainly, into a teacher-training institution. As late as 1950, it also taught 500 grade-school children crowded out of the town's inadequate Negro schools. When Owens arrived, Selma was down to...
Sizer also decried the tendency of schools to suppress individuality. He explained that the regimentation and organization of students on the basis of apparent similarities, rather than intellectual and social characteristics, individuality and hinders the teaching of esthetic and ethical values.
Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. When the Stanislavsky-directed Moscow Art Theater last appeared in New York in 1924, it was the apostle of a new dramatic naturalism bent on depicting man with all his mental warts, body aches and soul pains. For U.S. actors it was a kind of...