Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer of a cabinet post to seventy-nine-year old Carter Glass is evidence that age and liberalism are not always separate in the President's mind. The administration is in reality seeking some very particular new blood, and not the rather theoretical advantages of young blood in the abstract. Wheeler appropriately stressed this point by comparing the enlargement plan to the packing of a jury by a private litigant...
While teaching drawing at the University of Virginia in the summer of 1915, she felt that at last she could paint the way she wanted to paint. With charcoal she covered sheets and sheets with neat abstract drawings, sent them to a friend in Manhattan with specific instructions not to show them to anyone else. Anita Pollitzer, the friend, could hardly wait to rush the drawings to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz who promptly gave them an exhibition. Enraged, Georgia O'Keeffe went rushing north to protest: Stieglitz argued back. Nine years later they were married...
Naturally Abstract...
...Persian view of an object and the aim in painting differs most from the view and aim of the West, in being naturally abstract. This abstraction as applied to a picture is vividly shown in four paintings from the early 14th century, illustrations from a Shah Nama, "The Book of Kings," by the poet Firdausi...
...that we shall be swamped by inefficiency before we learn how to make it effective and economical. The people have a right to actual examples of public ownership to supply a basis for coming to long-time conclusions on the subject. We should not be forced to decide by abstract theory. I disagree both with private utility men who would prevent any trial of public ownership on a large scale, and with public ownership advocates who would take a course the success of which would bring the utilities to unconditional surrender...