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Instead of embracing success, however, New Order hid its face behind abstract or monochromatic album covers and performed entire concerts without ever addressing the audience. The cult grew. After the release of 1989's Technique, the band dispersed into various spin-off acts, most notably Electronic, which was fronted by singer Bernard Sumner and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr...
...maybe the rallies and letters haven't really changed anything outside the activist circles of the class of '93. Caley M. Castelein '93 and Geary, both white males, see identity politics in the abstract. "I think people talk about it more, but I don't know anyone who's been to the rallies," Castelein says...
Such stories pushed Goldfarb, an abstract mathematical logical theorist who has never held a permanent job outside Harvard University, to come out of the closet in the early 1980s, making him the first openly gay member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...gripped by them," he says of the questions of logical theory he works to solve. He is "trying to think in most abstract ways about human cognition and human reason...
...culture, referring to earlier art and yet coming out of intense experiences of the real world of rocks and trees and human bodies. She interrogates and reimagines the language of figurative sculpture with the same degree of intensity that Richard Serra's work brings to the idea of abstract minimalism. Until a full retrospective of her work is done in the U.S., these two shows give a fair idea...