Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think students get much more out of personal contact with a professor in a classroom than an abstract summary out of a course catalog," says Pipes. "It only goes on for two or three lectures...
...trip into the wilderness. Every time the canoe rounds a bend in the river, the landscape changes. She believes the journey has barely begun and that there are bound to be surprises in store. Certainly, science has finally started to shed light on a puzzle that is not just abstract and philosophical, but intimately familiar to anyone who gives it a moment's thought. But as physicist Penrose has suggested, the notion that the human mind can ever fully comprehend the human mind could well be folly. It may be that scientists will eventually have to acknowledge the existence...
Conventional wisdom seems to dictate that publishers should not capitulate to threats, but in this case, opponents say, more than abstract principles are at stake. By not capitulating to the Unabomber's demands, editors seem to be placing the importance of their news pages over the sanctity of human life and, in doing so, they are putting more lives in danger...
Most of the abstract painting coming out of the School of Paris in the late '40s and '50s, except for Serge Poliakoff (sometimes) and the still somewhat underrated Nicolas de Sta?l, was either self-consciously pious (religious stained glass was a favored metaphor) or mock convulsive. A hideous array of bravura squiggles by Georges Mathieu, whom French critics, for a while, regarded as Europe's answer to Pollock, reminds you how shallow this rhetoric could...
...Romantic Movement is somewhat more diffuse and abstract than his first book, and if believers will say he's refining his theme, skeptics will feel he's repeating himself. Still, it is stuffed with details that feel as familiar as old coins rediscovered in one's back pocket. Light as a souffla, and no less addictive, The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles...