Word: aestheticized
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What really distinguishes PAGE is its approach. It's significant that two of the sponsoring agencies--the U.N. Development Program and the World Bank--deal primarily with economic development. Their participation acknowledges an inescapable fact: economies cannot remain forever healthy in an unhealthy environment. PAGE looks at the natural world...
The urbanization of the globe is more than an aesthetic problem. Human sprawl threatens the habitat of most animal and plant species--except for cockroaches, rats, pigeons, crabgrass and other organisms that thrive with mankind. Relentless human expansion is the main reason the world is fast losing its biodiversity, raising...
Elkies believes his three main passions have a lot in common. "It's a way of thinking, or even of feeling about math, music and chess that it feels like one is applying a similar kind of aesthetic viewpoint."
Sheng came to Harvard thinking about concentrating in economics or biology. But after breaking a 4 x 5 camera during a photography class, he felt indebted to the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Explains Sheng, "I called Chris Killip [head of the VES photography department] and said, 'I broke the...
Though Dr. Johnson is well aware of the hostility that the book provokes in certain readers, he ascribes such negativity to a fundamental aesthetic prejudice. "Many people haven't discovered the simple," says Johnson, 61. "Many people distrust the simple." He recounts the story of his own life--an inspiring...