Word: aestheticized
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"Just now," Edmund Wilson wrote in the spring of 1934, "(Washington) is more interesting than I have ever known it before, and more lively than at any time since the war. The last administration weighed on Washington, as it did on the entire country, like a darkness, like an oppressive...
On the cosmic questions, Mr. Capote plays the famous writer's familiar con-game. To hear the successful writer tell it, they've never heard of Jung or symbols or aesthetic theories, and they profess an admirable ignorance when confronted with such things. "I am merely trying to tell a...
Wind, Snow & Tears. At length, as the weather cleared early last week, the rescue crews took off and headed for the floating island. There the men, lugging: what gear they could, tramped through the blackness, stumbling through piles of ice, skirting cracks and ridges. At the runway, they lit gasoline...
They are all, in every sense, fundamental: in the direct mysticism of their spiritual vision, in their equally mystical approach to nature, in the intuitive spontaneity of their form. Their religion and their form are one. They make aesthetic theory superfluous, and their natural intimacy with the forces of life...
It was John Calvin's way and the way of his followers and the way of the New World experiment. The only embellishments of the day were made for tombstones and portals, and one John Hunt reflected the colony's aesthetic esprit when he complained that the stained glass of...