Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even be considered a novel at all. Challenging comparison with The Scarlet Letter in its theme, it is obviously pale, frail, overintellectualized beside Hawthorne's masterpiece. Evil for Hawthorne's puritans was intense, powerful, a demon to be fought. For Santayana's characters it is distant, abstract, a moral problem to be solved like geometry. Thus the characters in The Last Puritan are real as symbols of Santayana's philosophy rather than as people...
...ideas rather than their abundance or soundness. In so far as the two objectives are separable, but I had dared to suppose that they would recognize two facts that it takes only a little experience in scholarly writing to appreciate: First, that the more involved and the more abstract the subject matter is, the more difficult becomes the writing: Secondly, that the more thoughtful and balanced one tries to be in one's judgement, the less one can rely on sophisticated devices of writing techniques and hence the less crisp and the less "to be taken over...
...first time in his life two months ago. He knocked the partition out between two small rooms. Always wearing high, stiff collars, he goes fishing whenever possible, likes billiards and tinkering his ancient Chandler automobile. Art groups he studiously avoids, has no truck with young people who paint abstractions. The abstract quality in his own paintings he hints at in his titles. A picture is apt to be called not Stonington Harbor, but Pertaining to Stonington Harbor...
...that party electors in each province should decide among themselves whether to support the party nominee or another. The Government, happy to be back where it was a month ago, accepted the plan, set Jan. 10 as Election Day. To the Menocalistas, who cared not a whit for the abstract justice of the Dodds Plan, it looked as if the Government was merely calling in another U. S. adviser to justify its disregard of the law. Promptly they withdrew from the election...
...like Hall, accept the experimental psychology of his day as marking the advent of the new era. This was clearly not what he was looking for! It is true that he had from the beginning, and never lost, a respect for facts. He distrusted speculation in vacuo, abstract dialectic, and learning from books. . . . But James felt, as we have seen, a growing distaste for experimental psychology owing to physical and temperamental reasons. He lacked the strength to spend long hours in a laboratory; a recurrent lumbago prevented his standing, and trouble with his eyes interfered with...