Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ascertained whether these demands will be met. But we hope they will not. Not that we disagree with the abstract principles involved. But the days of Jeffersonian simplicity have vanished from Washington. It is now a de luxe city and the de luxe spirit has prevailed with especial verve during the last two years. Life should be lived there with a fine gusto and grand disregard. Why haggle over the price of pie when money is such a trifling matter? Congressmen should learn to relax as the rest of us have. They should have another cup of coffee and another...
...very grave doubts whether any expenditure can be transferred to the future for payment, the amount of deficit that the country can stand now is of some concern. Everyone is agreed that there is a limit. Scales have been broken heretofore by being overweighted. We should realize that the abstract definition of the lexicon, "equilibrium, steadiness, stability" is there because it has concrete, practical applications...
...Norris is the joy of her family, a delight to the most successful wits in Manhattan, whose books, plays, columns or magazines may deride the very qualities Kathleen Norris' novels champion. George Kaufman, Harold Ross, Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott are doting friends. She remains abstract in any crowd, never gives the appearance of listening. When Corinne Roosevelt Robinson tried to tell her once that her brother liked her book, Mother, Mrs. Norris vaguely got him confused with a doctor in Buffalo, made a mental note that it was probably the obstetrical parts of her story that appealed...
...Professor Whitehead warns the class at the very beginning the course should not be taken by those who have no background in philosophy or science nor any inclination to do intensive and highly abstract thinking on their own part. The reading consists largely of the lecturer's own works and some by men like Santayana, James, Hume, and Mill. The lectures require a great deal of concentration and assume a background in philosophic and scientific thought...
...robust, the Whitney biennial has acquired, with the passing years, an added importance. It has become about as accurate a thermometer as critics have to show the temperature and trends of current U. S. painting. Reading the Whitney thermometer as of last week it might be said that abstract painters and technical experimenters are rapidly vanishing. Most present-day artists are now concerned with such Americana as lynching, unemployment, militarism, middle-class stupidity, lower-class squalor. Dozens of able artists have in 1934 found bread lines and burlesque shows more interesting than bunches of zinnias in a pewter vase...