Word: abstractable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When one looks beyond the style of the delivery and sees the message itself, it is not less, but more outrageous. What are to us abstract ideas, things for conversation, are the absolute truths in Napoleon. First, it is a panegyric to the transcendent man, he who honestly commands fate rather than obeys it. Yet Napoleon goes still farther and develops into a four-and-a-half hour monument to nationalism--that thoroughly obscene word--and concludes in a sweeping millenial vision. All France will find redemption in this one, unlikely man. It smell of wild irrationality, even fascism...
...Roosevelt memorial, approved in 1960 and still unbuilt, was smothered in epithets like "instant Stone-henge" and "bookends out of a deep freeze." Not until next spring, incredibly, will Washington get its first monument to General Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces of World War I. Those bothered by abstract design might consider that grand obelisk, the Washing ton Monument. We have come to love it. Some day the Viet Nam memorial, too, may win the hearts and minds of the American people...
...your imagination. Harvard's Henry Moore scupture--an abstract work of a reclining woman--has disappeared from its usual resting place across from Lamont Library...
...Such a posture betrays an ignorance of approximately 5000 years of history--"recorded" or otherwise--and signifies a misguided utopianism. Persistently advancing its spurious world view without taking into account the cultural context of Europe or the Middle East, the Reagan administration is left with an ideology littered with abstract platitudes: Liberty (as it invests faith in a repressive society); Anti-terrorism (as it flirts with the PLO); Peace (as it completes the largest arms sale ever...
...what I like writing for myself is purely abstract music, pure, non-programmable music. I have written symphonic poems, and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression...