Jobs is an aesthete who can enthrall Apple fans with lectures about how liberal arts and technology intersect.
Yet critics in the Mexican art world still believe Slim is more of a bargain hunter than an aesthete.
At Oxford, he became a dandy and an aesthete, affecting a posture of foppishness and rather sarcastic detachment from his relatives.
The Victorian sage John Ruskin helped invent the modern cult of the craftsman: he was both an idealist and an aesthete, and he argued that miserable workers produced miserable work, and vice versa.
His mother is a one-time Silesian aristocrat who aspires to be regarded as an intellectual and an aesthete to help make up for the knowledge that she has come down in the world.
Having ventured out of the United States precisely once (and then only to Tijuana), she was posted first to India and then to Ceylon, where she met a bristly aesthete ten years her senior named Paul Child.
He seemed less like a snooty aesthete than a regular guy who just happened to know a little more about movies than anyone else in the neighborhood and set up a little corner stand to talk about them.
To coincide with the anniversary, Stolen is screening at film festivals in the US. It interweaves the story of the theft and also of the pursuit of the missing works with the collector Isabella Stewart Gardner's own correspondence with Bernard Berenson, the aesthete and art adviser.
McQueen could hardly be hipper, yet he remains, to an extent, an old-fashioned aesthete, drawn to extreme behavior in his characters not because of any trials of spirit that they undergo but because he is challenging himself to unleash the wildest material that he, wielding his camera, can then possess and tame.
After a spell in business and a few years at the Treasury, he was enticed to King's College, Cambridge, which 61 years earlier another economist-aesthete, John Maynard Keynes, had joined as a lecturer, writing (with his mother's help) a letter of resignation from the civil service to his boss, a Sir Arthur Godley.
ECONOMIST: Wynne Godley, British economist, died on May 13th, aged 83
An intelligent and rather overcivilized caper movie, set in Montreal, which features three generations of great male actors: Marlon Brando (sounding like his long-ago nemesis Truman Capote) as an upper-class aesthete and fence with exquisite manners, Robert De Niro as a saturnine jazz-club owner and safecracker who never takes risks, and Edward Norton as a brilliant but willful young con man and criminal.
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