Word: aestheticized
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The new dogma of equality of results turns up some bizarre arguments. In his recent book More Equality, Herbert J. Gans, a Columbia University sociologist, draws up a scenario for "cultural equality" that would eliminate "invidious status and other distinctions between 'highbrow,' 'middlebrow' and 'lowbrow...
Font of Truth. Catholic Theologian David Tracy, writing in a recent issue of the Christian Century, recalls the period somewhat ruefully: "Has Einstein spoken? Fine, but really-if you look hard and long enough, it's all there in Aquinas. Are you looking for an aesthetic or political theory...
Banality and Bliss. The truth of certain maxims once thought demode and elitist now reasserts itself: for instance, that a posture of cool boredom can in itself become boring; that a perfunctory infatuation with the signs and portents of "masscult" means nothing unless it is subjected-as by Oldenburg-to...
Despite these and other longueurs, this is a worthy show. Alloway has succeeded where many previous critics failed, by clarifying the issues of pop and reminding us that the time of generalization is past. There is no honest way of rejecting or accepting the whole of pop, but it is...
The changes in the library design will have a beneficial aesthetic effect on the complex, Moulton said.