Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patriotic work." In spite of despicable living conditions, an incredible number of people gathered to work hand in hand. However, enthusiasm quickly subsided as a result of poor working conditions. The powerful songs of the brigadiers ("Rocks will fall, in the brigadier's work!") slowly died together with the abstract idea that their work was benefitting society...
...more general issue concerning my own and the university administration's commitment to increasing the opportunities for women on the Harvard faculty, I recognize, again, that whatever abstract words of reassurance I can offer in this letter--coming in the context of a concrete decision with which you disagree--are unlikely to alleviate your concerns. Let me say only that the ad hoc process is an extraordinarily rigorous one, for both men and women. Some adverse outcomes occur every year, and it is difficult yet genuine reality that a number of individuals will proceed to the ad hoc stage...
...band's laudably gritty feminist outlook isn't more creatively realized, however. Many of the songs on Dig Me Out feature lyrics that are either too abstract to have much impact or too obvious to have much poetic resonance. The dull Heart Factory, for example, is about--duh--a factory that makes hearts: "Now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door." It doesn't take Deep Blue to figure out that that metaphorical construct is a yawner...
...beginning there was a lot of skepticism....I could make all the arguments at the abstract level, but what really had an effect was bringing first-rate people," Thompson says...
...always a liability, this frenetic motion sometimes creates a brilliant effect as in Landscape with Boat. Easily the most abstract and compositionally daring painting in the show, Landscape with Boat looks like a jagged collision of two blue dot screens leaving a gigantic gash across the canvas. Only upon closer inspection do we notice the prow of a tiny red boat jutting in from the lower left-hand edge of the painting. This careful cropping coupled with a horizonless point of view emphasizes the vast and perhaps overwhelming aspect of nature often captured in actual Chinese painting...