Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funds. I find the arrival of delegates in Cadillacs, for example somewhat distasteful in light of the ongoing international tragedy in the Third World. It seems to me that as a delegate one could get caught up in all the glamour and glitter, forgetting that states are not purely abstract entities but aggregates of people who desperately need to cooperate to solve mutual problems...
...other hand, when asked to rate the modified random-system a concept that had not been personally experienced and could only be analyzed in an abstract manner, more students actually supported if than opposed it. Thus when removed form any biases resulting from experience, the modified random system was actually supported more tha opposed. So what does this actually mean...
They opened the night with a fun dance called "Concerto inF." choreographed by Billy Wilson with music by George Gershwin. Though music by George Gershwin. Thoush somewhat reminiscent of the dance seenes in West Side Story. "Concerto in F" merges the abstract with the thematic. It captures the feeling of deadly confrontation, speed, flight and emergency. Pairs, trios and groups run on and off stage turning and leaping with immaculate sharpness...
...amount. Many word sociologists like McClure and Pound say that when words get separated from direct conversation when they are just on the page without the physical component of sound, then the head gets cut off from the bod. And people will tend to go into generalizations and hyper-abstraction of the language. Words have to refer to something real, and when we begin to take words as having eternal abstract essence without any physical reference, the human content is removed from the language. As Pound points out, when the words in poetry get cut off from the song...
Nowadays tapestry weavers try to make modern corporate headquarters look properly palatial. And where the Renaissance craftsmen typically copied famous works by painters like Raphael, most contemporary weavers follow the lead of those 20th century painters and sculptors who have worked in an abstract mode. Their credo is "honest" use of materials. It is "dishonest" to use fibers as if they were paint, to represent specific images...