Word: aestheticized
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A hodgepodge of entertaining exhibits are scattered around these days--they provide no Aesthetic Experiences, but a good deal of artistic pleasure.
If the expiating missions of statesmen, clerics and professional men intrigue Auchincloss, that of moral and aesthetic critic, described by a minor character, holds for him the greatest interest.
Unfortunately, the author's deep involvement with his novel transforms his work from a historical chronicle of a distinguished New England family to a pointed deposition--sketched on yellow legal paper--on the Puritan ethic. Through all his talk of covenants, missions and Puritan ideals runs an annoying smugness. Novelists...
Easy Vanity. As this collection of mock essays about mock artists amply demonstrates, no aesthetic theory is too lunatic for Domecq to explain and applaud. He takes up the cudgels for the late César Paladión, an imaginary novelist who followed the path of rigorous logic straight...
It was a moment of utter mutual incomprehension between two cultures. The Japanese felt that their principal art was being looted from them, and they were right. Hundreds of ancient swords, including 42 documented National Treasures made between the 12th and 15th centuries, vanished as souvenirs and have never reappeared...