Word: aestheticized
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AMERICAN POLITICIANS rarely advance by dint of ideological purity. One campaign and they learn how to compromise; one term, and they learn to praise compromise as the essential virtue of those who would govern themselves. Paul Tsongas, who ten years ago served on the Lowell city council and now sits...
On the other hand, the announcement that the "best of the small presses" has been gathered in one volume poses some problems. Pushcart Editor and Publisher Bill Henderson writes that the 52 winners were chosen from more than 4,000 submissions by 2,000 presses, ranging from Abaxas (Madison, Wis...
Despite his shy demeanor, Barr's near dictatorial power led museum colleagues to call him "the Pope" and caused him to be described as "a man who could make enemies without moving a single muscle of his face." He used his position to campaign tirelessly against the hostility of...
Harborplace on aesthetic grounds. Nory Miller, an associate editor of Progressive Architecture, maintains that "the buildings of Harborplace are a mash of cliches ?high tech, antique store, postwar modern, 19th century band shell and pavilion-by-the-sea?not well reconciled to each other nor resolved in themselves." Miller...
The public took him at his word and flocked to his Indian Gallery. In a time before photography, he provided the first real glimpse of the Indian in his native habitat. The art critics, who tended to take their standards from Europe, were at best condescending-the lowly Indian and...