Word: aestheticized
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Perhaps the most serious deficiency of this book is, however, its failure to conform to supposedly "aesthetic" criteria. This book is badly written, badly constructed, and shows no evidence of having been designed to communicate anything of significance to the reader. It is perfectly possible that the absence of content...
Another alumnus, William P. Bailey '46, stated that "regarding the new House, if the mediocre, indeed incoherent design conception of the west elevation is an indication of the interior of this structure, then Harvard has commissioned a building that will ... give future generations just cause to condemn the aesthetic judgement...
Perhaps most remarkable in the case of Morgan is the refinement of taste which produced so intimate a collection, no less fine for its subdued key. So grotesque an aesthetic faux paus as the acquisitions of the William Randolph Hearst dynasty, or even as sincere but visionless an affair as...
Grandpa Jones and Hank Snow are admittedly inferior to Thomas L. Thomas, and "The Drunkard's Song" may not equal the musical and aesthetic excellence of "Auf dem Wasser du singer." Either in spite of this, or because of this, however, hillbilly music remains popular at Harvard.
The Committee hopes to replace this mixture with "an atomic picture of the universe." In addition to underplaying mechanics, the physicists have emphasized the aesthetic and philosophical overtones of science. By making physics a more unified and rounded study, the Committee hopes to make science attractive to the college-minded...