Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long in an inchoative stage is a criticism which few would care to dispute. And that flood control is not a quixotic dream the most superficial reveiw of British engineering on the Nile makes very clear. In detail, the Presidential message is sound and desirable enough; but in the abstract, a few uncomfortable difficulties arise...
...course the anti-Semitism of the Nasis is a real factor, and an unfortunate one, in the present German situation. The Fascism of Hitler is based largely on the consciousness of race, as the Fascism of Massolini is based largely on the consciousness of the abstract state. Under such conditions any important racial group in the German community will inevitably be resented and discriminated against. But Bishop Manning, Rabbi Wise, and the Nation might reach a saner perspective if they reviewed some of the more obvious features of the Treaty of Versailles. That Germany's government now rests upon...
...nearly a fortnight. Finally his St. Francis was finished. Sculptor Bufano was out $2,400 of his own money. He moved his St. Francis into a barn, neglected even to have it photographed. From under the arms he quarried two lumps of black granite that he fashioned into two abstract female figures, known as the Twin Peaks. With these he returned to California, blandly expecting San Franciscans to put up $5,000 more to bring his colossus, sight unseen, across the Atlantic and the continent. When this was not forthcoming he withdrew to live apart, sleeping in his clothes, munching...
...general and abstract a discussion Mr. Demos has very little time to distinguish the man who is formally educated in college from the man who educates himself by experience, reflection and by training his mind. Formal education has certain immense advantages. The deliberate breadth of the instruction offered, the association with professional teachers and with other students, stimulate the mind before contact with the world has paralyzed it with routine. But college instruction, as every college instructor agrees, has no exclusive rights to wonder, awareness, judgment and intellectual honesty. Although many educated men have degrees after their names, the will...
...acid we now dip ours in syrup. In statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself.' I feel there must be something the matter...