Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace, that is to say normal relations between peoples, is no longer founded on idealistic sentiments or on abstract definitions of the rights of each. It is founded on an exchange of interests and on the compensation of reciprocal needs...
This type of thing becomes even more serious as students progress into the so-called higher mathematics which is the fundamental tool through which an engineering manurance is wrought. The same abstract treatment with enormously increasing demand upon memory rather than a procedure which would develop a true physical concept of the matters handled is continued and, indeed, the algebraic complication, the rapidity with which the subject is presented and the enormous amount of matter covered make it virtually impossible for men without excellent memories to pass their mathematics examination...
...first settled in Paris, he painted gypsies, vagabonds and melancholy children in the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec and Daumier. Always changing his style, he developed what art critics like to call his Blue Period, his Rose Period, his Neo-Classic Period, etc., etc. He became more and more abstract, more and more removed from humanity. Picasso was one of the founders of Cubism. He is the wellspring of that latest artistic unintelligibility, Surrealism, which has been defined as "the expression of thought without the control of reason, that is, the painting of dreams and states of mind by any means...
...long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...
...more drawings than any one other artist, and his work is very capable. His lithographs are of such scenes as building construction, trains, bridges, and ports. Making use of the full range of light effects which his medium allows, he turns his subjects into delightful black and white near-abstractions which show only the idyllic side of his industrial subjects. In "New York" he steps farther into the realm of the abstract to give an impression of the city in a pleasing design. Wanda Gag seems to be impressed with the irregularity of the physical world, and turns out some...