Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become a slogan . . . The so-called renaissance of modern art is nothing more than a bastard arrangement of Negro art. In order to recover their youth, the elite of our civilization, who no longer have anything to say . . . have grasped greedily at the art of these alleged savages." ¶ "Abstract painters have betrayed painting and, after killing it, have shut it up in a cubist coffin. Life today hardly allows one to be a painter. Tomorrow it will be even less so. What is painting today? An anachronism...
...remaining contributions are less noteworthy. Lyon Phelps' poem on a bar-fly conveys a few impressions, but is hindered by a choppy use of words. George Kelly contributes an interesting review of Conrad; also a long poem, which is not very successful in welding concrete images to abstract introspection. In another review, John Wansbrough tries and fails to say something interesting about Santayana's philosophy in a space too brief for definition of terms...
...Cornell, and, since 1949, Carnegie Tech) have been cited as the only pure "graduate professional" schools of business in the United States. There are upwards of 150 other undergraduate and graduate business schools, but most of these specialize either in the teaching of immediately salable technical skills or of abstract economic theory. This leaves only six schools which are really concerned with the broader program of developing general administrative skills and producing "leaders...
Similarly, she believes that the "degree of maleness" which decides a man's choice of career will influence the sex of his children. Among 5,400 children whose fathers were members of the armed forces, business executives, politicians, lawyers, farmers, or abstract scientists, she found that boys outnumbered girls six to five. But, she reports in Science, the ratio was exactly reversed in those families where the fathers had taken up professions in which women often excel men-as actors, social workers, teachers, fiction writers and artists...
Much of astronomy is an abstract science, as remote from life as the farthest star. But astronomers can sometimes be as practical as bricklayers. Last week, under programs sponsored by the Navy and the Air Force, the practical astronomers were busy building two giant coronagraphs-telescopes that can make their own solar eclipse (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946). With their new gadgets, the stargazers will use the sun as a vast atomic laboratory. Shielded from the blinding light of the sun itself, they will be able to study the fireworks that sparkle continuously in the thin atmosphere around...