Word: estheticizing
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Much of Kendall's work is a social history of an age when a woman's intellectual capacity was not highly regarded. So few women were prepared for college that there were years when Vassar granted only one or two diplomas. Newspapers argued the wisdom of ignoring "great...
The book provides a view of history that is akin to walking past displays in a museum. Like a wax museum, it has its chamber of horrors--but everything in good taste and proportion, subdued by esthetic distance:
Although having different philosophical and esthetic approaches to filmmaking, they all shared a common attitude toward actors (Forman and Passer introduced the use of non-professional actors) that is best defined by the director Jiri Weiss: "To me an actor is what five divisions of the Soviet army are for...
Few rum-sippers will understand what is going on or who is winning Sunday, because the boats will start at 15 second intervals. For the spectators, the regatta is reduced to a purely esthetic event.
Dave Van Ronk is the other great one giving a local performance during the weekend, playing at Passim's until Sunday night. Van Ronk has been a dominant figure in folk for the past 15 years, and he's good at just about everything--old spirituals, jugband, political songs, love...