Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power operates by open consensus. Every line of this building is simple, masculine, direct -- the federal style in all its confidence. This exalted plainness of utterance would permeate crafts other than architecture; it was the general style of the early Republic. Cabinetmakers no less than builders now preferred explicit, abstract shapes: circle, ellipse, square. Deep carving and swag work became flattened and were replaced by abstractions of depth, mimicking light and shade in veneer. Back to basics: antiquity is destiny...
...attitudes: old-fashioned motherhood has stood right up there with the flag and apple pie in the pantheon of American ideals. To some people day-care centers, particularly government-sponsored ones, threaten family values; they seem a step on the slippery slope toward an Orwellian socialist nightmare. But such abstract concerns have largely receded as the very concrete need for child care is confronted by people from all walks of life...
Members of CLS hold that the law is not founded on abstract principles of justice, but is necessarily intertwined with dominant social and economic norms...
...Extraordinarily quick, nay, incomprehensible cutting, imparting an abstract quality to the violence -- a terrible beauty, as the impressionable might put it. It also implies that beneath the director's wolfish exterior there lurks a sheepish artist as well as an existential philosopher eager to prove that morality is a sometime thing, determined by a trigger finger's itch...
...Gdansk, where he became a shipyard electrician. He describes himself as a typical peasant worker, "not really belonging to the city, nor the countryside, a wage earner in appearance only, profoundly attached to his farm." Such men and women were pragmatic, practicing Catholics with little interest in the abstract Communist orthodoxy of Poland's Soviet-backed rulers. Their main concern was poverty. Shipyard conditions were harsh. Once, Walesa writes, 22 workers were burned alive while welding a ship whose fuel tanks had been filled early to save time. When police shot and killed at least 45 workers during...