Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practice it. It is disingenuous to portray this incident solely as a free speech issue. There is nothing wrong with open debate. But, unfortunately, the world is not a Gov section. While we calmly debate the merits of various opinions, Nicaraguans are today being killed--this is not some abstract concept nor merely my personal opinion, but documented reality...
...PEOPLE! Single Rooms, the View, the Food, the Tower, the weight room, the big screen T.V., the carpeting, the "Concreatery" (the grill), milk and cookies, weekly open houses, the Herlihys, the "Concrete Abstract," "Mathering Heights," the tutors, the staff, the uncrowded suites, even the free standing stairway in the house library. But most of all, the house spirit...
When faced with the apparent choice between saving human lives and protecting an abstract freedom, most people instinctively choose the former. If the purpose of speech is to advocate murder, its seems morally permissible to abridge the right to speak...
Indeed, it almost seems that he invented modernism all at once. During 1921 and 1922 he proposed on paper two grand, denuded glass skyscrapers, a pair of unassailable abstract objects oblivious to everything but their own technological prowess. The drawings of the two buildings, on display at MOMA, are oversize and dashing, like Mies himself. Designed without particular functions in mind, one without even a hypothetical site, the forms are altogether different from the architecture that preceded them, not merely novel but profoundly new. Neither was to have any obvious top, bottom, entrance or decoration. Mies' visionary high-rise modernism...
...looking at indulgent expressionist pictures that suck all the air out of the room." He prefers to think of his paintings as "diagrams that describe the way the world works," but one has to take this with a grain of salt. Actually, they come as much from minimal abstraction as from botany. The first time Winters painted a microscopic object was in 1980, when, seeking to relieve the monotony of a field of abstract color, he had painted in homage to Brice Marden, he decided to put in a diagram of the crystalline structure of the pigment, the form...