Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Considered in the abstract, giving out exam questions in advance doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Students have to write out answers to a series of essay questions, without considering the course material as a whole...
Characteristically, though, he understates the change. "I don't think it was as dramatic a break as people have said it was." He averts his eyes; he's probably had to explain this before. "The pattern, the abstract form, has a life cycle...It seemed to me, maybe 20 years ago, that the iambic pentameter had become extremely dull...I think that's changed. I think some people now are writing it in a way that's interesting...And my own new book is quite formal--in a different...
...mainly, as it turned out, it mattered for formal reasons. Iron is quintessentially structure, not mass. Inside every figure produced by the academies had been a leaner, more abstract presence -- the wire armature on which the clay or plaster was built, hidden by the later work of representation. Just as Michelangelo had imagined the figure latent in the raw marble block, hidden by the superfluities of stone, so it fell to Picasso, Gonzalez and others to imagine a second structure within the conventionally sculpted figure: a kind of iron essence, expressed in line and plane rather than continuous surface...
...easy to abstract this issue emotionally, physically, and psychologically, but I wish people would take another look," she said...
...million for Clinton. In Massachusetts, the campaign staff of Republican Governor William Weld credited gays, who mobilized against his Democratic opponent John Silber, with helping him get elected in 1990. This power has even greater effect on the congressional level. "No member of Congress -- zero -- votes based on some abstract poll number," says Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who is gay. "You base your vote on the reaction you get in your own district or state...