Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peres and Rabin suggested something almost heroic--in the middle of terror activity, of hostility, to come and present a vision of an abstract idea like peace. Of course, the reality was much more concrete and bloody. But the greatness of Rabin and Peres was that they said we are strong enough now to be a little weaker, to take a calculated risk...
...rocks beneath a smiling sea, and that was what Cezanne sought and obsessively analyzed--the bones and masses of the world. His famous remark about seeking in nature "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" need not be taken literally--he was never a geometric painter, still less an abstract one, though later abstractionists would build on his work. And yet his greatest paintings bear abstract constructions of tremendous amplitude and sureness...
...didn't trust himself with women; the other, that he had religious scruples and a genuine feeling that such things could not be done in a small provincial town without provoking scandal." Instead, he recycled his old art-school drawings, a process which must have contributed to the strangely abstract look of the figures...
Perhaps the most highly charged intellectual debate on campus today is to what extent American universities should support ethnic studies. The debate is confounded by the highly complex and somewhat abstract themes that comprise the issue. Individuals on both sides tend to oversimplify and polemicize, labeling ethnic studies advocates as screaming radical minorities and their opponents as perpetuators of white male racism...
Hillary Rodham Clinton met last week with TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson and talked about her activism on behalf of children. The issue may not be just abstract. She and the President are talking about having another child, she said, or adopting one. Excerpts...