Word: aestheticized
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The first major production he designed was the 1975 Glyndebourne version of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, its libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Hockney, never embarrassed about paying homage to his aesthetic hearth gods, did the whole thing in the manner of Hogarth's...
"The myth of John Kennedy will undoubtedly outlive the substance of what he achieved...In the end, the American appreciation of Kennedy may come to be not political but aesthetic, and vaguely religious."
The wave of negative revisionism about Kennedy may now be receding. But the myth of John Kennedy will undoubtedly outlive the substance of what he achieved. History will remember not so much what he did as what he was, a memory kept in some vault of the national imagination. In...
All of which may at first appear stunningly obvious as we sit munching on stale popcorn in the air-conditioned civilization of some urban movie theater. Ballard's remarkable achievement consists in translating this awareness, seemingly so self-evident, into images that work powerfully on both aesthetic and intuitive levels...
Dr. Lewis Thomas, 69, has built a successful second career by giving many laymen their first clear overview of the moral and even aesthetic problems that can be encountered in the laboratory. The bestselling essays in The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail moved nimbly from...