Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puts it, "We've seen over and over again in focus groups that people have had a sense of huge bills coming due, with no one knowing how to pay them." The market collapse, he argues, "becomes a defining event for 1988, because the potential for tragedy, which was abstract a month or two ago, has now become real...
...announced his decision to review Dalton's case this summer after many of her supporters charged that her opponents on the Law School faculty attacked her scholarship because of her political ideology. Dalton embraces the theories of Critical Legal Studies, which holds that the law is not based on abstract notions of justice but on social and economic norms...
SOME self-proclaimed baseball afficionados (the effete ones in my book) say that one should appreciate the game for good play and beauty in the abstract--and the rooting might even get in the way of a higher, detached understanding. Bullbleep. Ya gotta root. (I cannot, for example, believe that my erstwhile colleague, National League prexy Bart Giamatti late of Harvard's great rival to the South, doesn't still pull for his beloved Red Sox, even though his present post demands an appearance of august impartiality within his new Leaue, and crusading zeal against his old favorites...
...HARVARD rehearsal centered around two of Bloom's pieces--"Two-Five-One" and "an abstract ballad" called "Desert". And Bloom took the session as seriously as her charges. She knew exactly how loud the triple forte should be, exactly how to dovetail each section with the next...
...teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art put his first painting up, an abstract work, which he now dismisses as being fairly poor. He chose to sign it "Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist" because to put his real name on it would have implied that the city had approved his project. They hadn...