Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact-finding eye of Big Business, quizzed all 12,076 editors of U. S. newspapers and farm journals. Each editor was asked to disregard his personal opinions, report his community's sentiment. More than 5,000 responded to this ticklish task. The editors shied in droves from abstract spectres of change. Does your community, asked the Board, favor the principle of government competition with private business? No!-by 27-to-1. The Board tried a new tack. Does your community favor government competition with the transportation business? One editor in nine said yes. Does it want the government...
Zerbe is a complete modernist in his semi abstract style of paintings and his regard for the importance of the formal qualities of pictorial design. He is a typical German in the emotional intensity displayed in his work. The superb colour of the artist and his delicate touch are, perhaps, the most striking elements in his work. Using a special hand made Japanese paper for his water colours, he produces a soft delicate quality that is perfectly consistent with the subtle tone relations that are far more important to the eye than the subjects portrayed are to the mind. Colour...
...Bulletin has not assumed a tenable position. While it evidently agrees with the statement of President Conant in the abstract, it is afraid to apply it in a given situation. Not only has the Bulletin seen fit to neglect the possible truth in these statements but it has also pussy-footed on the question of the right to criticize. If the Bulletin felt we did not possess the right and said so, their stand is comprehensible. To meet the issue on the minor questions of adjectives and courtesy, however, shows a failure to grasp our purpose. We would have welcomed...
...emerged both our philosophy of attainment or acquisition, and our tradition of arid spirituality. These two separate forces have worked an awful leaven in our civilization; they have produced a singular dichotomy in our national personality. Thus we have "highbrows" and "lowbrows," the former devoting themselves to a sterile, abstract kind of spirituality which has no roots in the reality of our life, and the latter running out their years in ceaseless, pointless activity, unaware that above them hangs a heaven of blue...
...time now has come," he cried, "to show that the League is not merely a place where abstract resolutions are passed and not followed by effective action, but that means can be applied when necessary...