Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective in bringing out indiotmens gods rule the campus. But I wonder whether it doesn't skirt the attitude towards religion most common among college students simply that of apathy. I think most students have surrendered less to an ism critical of Faith than to a vague or abstract interest in religion hard to distinguish from disinterest...
...automatic computers had been devised that "could play a tolerably good game of checkers, translate crudely from one language to another and learn from experience as higher animals do." He reported that John Von Newman, mathematician of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. had built an abstract model machine that could reproduce itself...
...philosophy and the Greek search for philosophic wisdom, the Jewish Pharisees clung to a law of stern, ritual purity. Each tradition, in Bruckberger's view, was deficient. But broken, then united by Christ's love, they merged to give Christianity both its traditional faith and its abstract philosophy...
Some pained partisans of abstract art pointed out that De Kooning was attempting to ride two horses (representation and abstraction) at once, and thought he failed. But De Kooning, at 48, had successfully shown again that he is one of the most original artists...
...been raining cats & dogs since Saturday," said the chunky young artist, watching the crowds in disbelief. Last week at the third show of his young career, Painter Alan Reynolds, 26, had good reason to be surprised. Even before the formal opening, all but two of his 26 abstract landscape oils had been sold to private previewers. The Arts Council's Sir Kenneth Clark snapped up one; the Tate Gallery's Sir John Rothenstein was almost too late, barely managed to get the picture he wanted. After a week, everything was sold, including all Reynolds' drawings and watercolors...