Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a while, Stravinsky's intention-the intention of writing purely abstract music-wins out, and the images vanish. What remains is a sense of irony or of elegy. The listener's mind wanders, but a foot begins to tap, a hand to twitch in time to the music. Rhythm alone, motion for its own sake, take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon...
...longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to the unjustifiable. It is because he likes individual human beings, participates in living communities, and respects the truth, that he refuses to surrender his soul to an abstract ideal of humanity, a tyrannical party, and an absurd scholasticism," i.e., Communism...
...essence of espresso is speed," explained Morris Yarrow, proprietor of the new Cafe Mozart, as he brought out two cups. "The process is the reverse of tea making, where you let the tea infuse slowly into the water." At the Plympton Street cafe, abstract paintings have replaced the chalk drawings of the old Capriccio, while uniform black tables and unpainted chairs contribute a slight austerity to Yarrow's coffee house...
...human being. She keeps a card catalog on the emotional lives of the neighbors as her kind, simple maid faithfully and quite innocently reports them. Using this field, she calls in a young woman about to be married and treats the poor girl as if she were a statistical abstract...
Unfortunately, during the first two-thirds of the story the professor often loses the reader as well as himself in his abstract speculations on his own emotional life. The third person is used for first person narrative, a very difficult device to handle, and sometimes runs away from the story in efforts to explain the professor's reaction to people, things, or thoughts. Too many elements are unsuccessfully introduced and confusion ensues. In the last part, however, when the narrative centers more exclusively around the man and his son, it works much better...