Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civics lesson. We're constitutional scholars now. The irony of this seamy scandal is that it forced us to return to First Principles, to passages of a dusty Constitution we rarely have occasion to consult in the normal course of events. We came to understand the concrete value of abstract concepts like majority rule, the workings of justice, the difference between fact and speculation, and the peaceful mechanisms the framers devised for settling mortal arguments that drive other countries' armies into the streets...
Gluck lavishes layer after layer upon her theme, but the poems themselves are hard to grasp. Usually jumping straight to the big abstract idea, as in "I am weary of the world's gifts, the world's/ stipulated limits," she fails to illustrate adequately her points or make the reader feel them. Poor in images, her unsentimental poems are easily forgotten. Her form, occasionally (seemingly arbitrarily) rhyming, of dull everyday speech does little to enhance her words. Although she completely penetrates and bursts the peephole perspective of sexual resentment and idealistic angst, her from seems to lag behind...
Suddenly the Pope was neither remote nor abstract; he was in Betty's bedroom. "For the first year and a half after Ed and I were married in 1970, we were not in a position to have any children," she says. "I saw Paul VI as representative of a very conservative Vatican. Obviously these people weren't out in the trenches." Like many American Catholics, Betty and Ed embraced a concept extolled by liberal American clerics: "We heard, 'a matter of conscience,'" she says, "and we declared birth control to be one. We would decide it according...
Calculus and Linear Algebra," a course intended for students, primarily first-years, who have had, according to the Courses of Instruction, substantial experience with abstract mathematics...
...weakens the rest of Dawkins' argument because it causes him to fall victim to fallacy. When he examines Keats' verses and claims that, in his exaltation of nature, Keats was doing the same as Newton, he is wrong. Keats was not doing the same as Newton. Certainly, in the abstract sense, they both sought truth and understanding. But while a nexus between science and literature can be found in these common goals, it cannot be found in a common approach. Keats found as much physics in nature as Newton found poetry in falling apples...