Word: aestheticized
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Where does this leave the bicyclist in Cambridge? If not with physical superiority to all the automobiles, at least with a distinct aesthetic superiority. While an automobile is a true pig among vehicles, a bicyclist can go farther with less energy than anything else, manmade or natural. What with the...
The play is so strained to begin with that it can't survive such treachery. A high point occurs when one of the rival "wrestlers" gives away his business--presumably so that the fight will be fair. With one irrational stroke Brecht thus dismisses class conflict as a factor of...
The earlier broad attacks on Beethoven and Schubert were more clearly directed at the music itself. The criticism goes beyond the notion that the class and status of a composer affects the music he writes. Social conditions obviously govern any artist's work, but in instrumental music it isn't...
It is a mistake to think of Wood Demon only as a sketchbook for Uncle Vanya. On its own it is an exuberant, if somewhat raveled play. Anyone who has ever watched Vanya or The Three Sisters and wished against all his better aesthetic judgment that one of the attractive...
UNFORTUNATELY, EVEN AN enlarged and responsible vision of humanistic studies may have serious shortsights. When Stott runs up against the interface of thirties culture and thirties society and the bridges between them that he set out to erect, he falls short. Stott's assessment of documentary expression remains primarily an...