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...ordinary cautious citizens" but often "people with eccentric personalities." But what is more interesting is that those who originally demonstrated were personally affronted, and unable to ignore attacks on their friends, values, or ideas. Very few of the original dissidents assumed their place out of a general or abstract concern...
...with Marxism. "I would think of myself as a Marxist only as I would think of myself as a Newtonian or for that matter as a Smithian. I think Marx tried to present a scientific view of society. So have the Neoclassicals. What they have tried to do is abstract from society and find the most important relationships that define how society operates. These people are looking at different relationships and that is why they often come up with opposite conclusions...
...Mont Blanc to the Crimea to the Nile. A photographic task force was even commissioned by the French government to rove the country photographing historic monuments (rather like Roy Stryker's famous teams in the U.S. during the 1930s Depression). One of the finest results is a highly abstract portrait of a row of flying buttresses at Rheims Cathedral, shot in diminishing perspective by Henri Le Secq...
...this. Professors, really, can't be any less abstruse. Most of them want or need to get a book out of their lecture notes, and that immediately means that the tone is going to be less than conversational. Those who don't are at least mildly interested in the abstract beauty of the whole thing, which means again that the tone will be, anything but conversational...
...make connections. Pauling utilized two widely separated area of science--x-ray deflection and quantum mechanics--to develop a theory of chemical bonding which revolutionized chemistry. Beardon, an artist, made connections between art and the jazz he grew up with in Harlem. The result: a new art form called "abstract expressionism...