Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have eight Marcuses in a row often evokes more pain than the abstract term of six million [deaths]," said Bernie Steinberg, executive director of Hillel...
Gross also reminisced about his undergraduate years. He recalled the 1969 student uprising, suggesting that his generation focused on "abstract political issues on which...[they] could have little impact...
This is an old theme, but it returns us to the question of "doors." What exactly were the doors that were being opened for me then, and what are they now? No one wins an abstract position of power or glory on the strength of his or her Harvard diploma. One must have specific goals and aspirations; certain sets of dreams--law, business, medicine--are more in keeping with the Harvard name than others. Lofty professions take to lofty pedigrees. Even if we don't take the lofty road professionally, we can rest assured that our hard work these four...
...there anything sweeter than the perfectly executed hoax? DAVID BOWIE, novelist William Boyd and others nearly pulled one off with the launch of the first book from Bowie's new publishing venture. It's Boyd's biography of little-known Abstract Expressionist painter NAT TATE, who, at 31, committed suicide after meeting Picasso and Braque and destroying most of his work, except the painting above. At the book party, English journalist David Lister asked guests if they had heard of Tate. Many had. Bad call. After very little digging, Lister discovered that Tate, photo and all, was a fiction. Boyd...
...Massy Tadjedin '99 clarifies T.S. Eliot's '12 1949 verse play in this production: lines are clear and the plot is crisp. But like any interesting play, the essence of The Cocktail Party is difficult to grasp. Drama can be frustratingly concrete. A painting or symphony may be sufficiently abstract to be immediately beautiful, but a play requires active sympathy and reflection. The domestic conversation that constitutes the action of The Cocktail Party, sans British accents perhaps, could be exchanged in any of our parents' living rooms, but because it is part of a play, the dialogue has been objectified...