Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nonjury trial put flesh on once abstract matters. It made plain the almost palpable tenderness of Stern and his wife Elizabeth, a pediatrician, both 41, and the no less compelling attachment of Whitehead, 29, and her husband Richard, 37, a sanitation worker. It savagely peered into problems of the Whitehead household -- his battle with alcoholism, their financial setbacks -- that raised doubts about whether surrogacy permits the more prosperous and sophisticated to exploit those who are less so. It offered the dismaying court spectacle of a mental-health expert disparaging Whitehead's skills as a mother because of how she played...
...your frustration you might be forgiven for not realizing that in your choice of strategy you were resolving a debate that lies at the heart of current social theory, moral philosophy and epistemology. If you choose the first strategy, you were appealling to an abstract standard which needed only to be imagined to prove plausible. You asked your roommate to distance herself from her immediate enjoyment and think about rights that should be enjoyed...
...writer, and his plight is, if anything, worse: audiences in his new country know next to nothing of the life he used to write about, and he knows next to nothing of the life familiar to them. To him, America is the Lower East Side of Manhattan plus the abstract, rectilinear shapes of the states on the map he stares at hour after hour. The story that this married couple tells is comic but grim: for the sake of freedom they have given up money, status, craft and identity. They are not only strangers in a strange land, they...
...council members charged that this systemwas little-known. "It's an abstract system,amorphous and inefficient," Eisert said...
Africa is comprehensive: great birth, great death, the beginning and the end. The themes are drawn, like the vivid, abstract hide of the zebra, in patterns of the absolute...