However, it is not clear that there is much reason to restrict beauty and ugliness in this way.
Homogenisation and ugliness in town planning – the urban equivalent of the rape of the countryside – are another source of complaint.
In an age when neither political office nor Ph.D.s nor media pulpits are guarantees of basic human decency -- such as the ability to speak with courtesy, to refrain from delusion and ugliness in criticism, to respect the word and the airwave (or digital bit-byte as the case may be) -- to be led by a President who stands tall as a decent, intelligent human being is a worthy thing in itself.
WASHINGTON — The extremes of beauty and ugliness in hockey came quickly for Steve Oleksy in his playoff debut Thursday night.
Chow has said, "Three green prawn heads in a bowl of noodle is not appetizing and somewhat ugly, but then ugliness in art and ugliness in life are two different things").
(His portrait of Mr. Chow, which hangs in the Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills, consists of three seasick-green images of the proprietor wiggling in a bowl of noodles. Chow has said, "Three green prawn heads in a bowl of noodle is not appetizing and somewhat ugly, but then ugliness in art and ugliness in life are two different things").
And then there was Steve Allen, the comedian, musician and writer, urging a concerned schoolteacher from suburban Kansas City and the rest of the applauding audience to "raise hell" about "the rudeness, violence, vulgarity and ugliness in comedy today".
"Why should we tolerate mediocrity and ugliness in our buildings?
In 2006, Louise Reilly Sacco participated in a panel discussion with authorities on art and architecture about standards of beauty and ugliness in art, published in Architecture Boston.
Beauty and ugliness are in the eye of the beholder.
