Word: aestheticized
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Birding. Noun (neologism). Dynamic, addictive and highly contagious behavior combining hunting skills, aesthetic delight, intellectual analysis and the dreamy withdrawal from normal life, especially during spring migration.
Scrupulously following the action of Shakespeare's play, The Skinhead Hamlet nonetheless observes the aesthetic standards of its modern setting. Going far beyond the Bard's request for "brevity," playwright Richard Curtis has provided the most laconic dialogue in memory. Hamlet's famous--and, in a bad production, interminable--soliloquy...
It is practically impossible to serve the muse without dealing with Mammon. That is what Bernard Berenson learned and accepted early in his long and lucrative association with Joseph Duveen, the enterprising head of an international gallery whose customers included most of the world's leading collectors. Berenson, born in...
One leader in the assessment movement, Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI, uses an "ability-based" curriculum to foster such growth. Fields of study are de-emphasized; instead students are tested in eight cross-disciplinary areas such as communication, analysis, and aesthetic response.
IDIDN'T see him for a while after that, and when I saw him again I realized I had created a monster. He had transformed my apartment--beautiful high ceilings with real hardwood floors--into a debauched crash pad for freaked-out artists and assorted hanger-on, calling it "The...