Word: aestheticized
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Grotesque Reality. The amusements of youth suddenly disappear, and the only laughter that remains is in echoes from the past. The shift in tone is perhaps explained by the fact that the novel is autobiographical in part, but De Vries makes no apology. The dramatic departure from the comic is...
It is always obvious when a Wagnerian production succeeds, for a music drama is essentially a siege. Its purpose is presumptuous and its battle long because it seeks to overcome our delight in sonority for its own sake, and thereby to thrust upon us the import of precisely what it...
Cambridge did not move to create the historical area until Sullivan, a Cambridge real-estate developer, attempted last year to construct a high-rise office building on stilts on a corner of the Common directly across from Harvard Yard. The University joined with several other groups to oppose Sullivan, because...
Those readers who insist upon filing contemporary writers to the pigeonhole of a convenient tradition will have no difficulty in detecting the intellectual habits of the school of Donne in such poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth...
Russian movies in the heyday of Eisenstein, Podovkin, and Dubshenko were aesthetic masterpieces. Each single shot would have made a still photograph magnificent in its own right. But the beauty of these films is so striking that it is occasionally distracting. At some point between then and now, the Russians...