Word: aestheticized
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The aesthetic of this bizarre novel, smells and textures and tastes, has a unique quality. For example, Peterson and the fly both consider merde the most understandable word in the French language. "Renew'd by ordure's sympathetic force,/As oil'd with magic juices for the course,/Vigorous he...
Abolition & Revolution. Barzun (TIME cover, June 11, 1956) ascribes this self-extinction to two influences that conflict with each other at the same time that they drive toward "the same Carthaginian end." The first is the group he labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and...
Her ability did not make a fool of the orchestra, for Senturia kept the lose fabric of the songs very well together. Still, the songs were uneven due to both technical and aesthetic failings. Too often a phrase played with nuance would give way to harsh tone, an abrupt entrance...
Behind the flashy rebellion of avant-garde composers today there is a distinct note of despair. For while these men differ widely in their compositions and aesthetic views, they share a reluctant disbelief in the power of music to communicate anything from one person to another. Music cannot express; it...
Young's other works are similar. In one he lets a butterfly loose in the audience, in another brings water and hay onto the stage for a piano to consume and in yet another repeats the phrase "whirlpools in some far-off sea." All this aims to break the traditionalism...