Word: abstracted
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...about a possible monument to its obscure founder, in a waterfront park. Justice at last, you'd think: black artist does black pioneer. But nobody really knows what Du Sable looked like, so a "likeness" of him is out of the question. You'd think that would suit an abstract sculptor, which Puryear basically is. But as Puryear knows only too well, an abstract commemoration of Du Sable would invite the criticism that the pioneer was being reduced, as blacks in Western art so often have been, to a kind of "facelessness," an absence where a strong presence should...
...Okinawa, geopolitics seem abstract, but life in the shadow of the American military does produce strange anomalies. On Saturday and Sunday, following the furor over Friday's alleged rape, the Kadena base opened its gates to visitors for an "American Fest" with carnival rides, a haunted house and a menu of hotdogs, hamburgers and barbecued ribs. One of the visitors, 27-year-old Kaori Teruya, stepped inside a huge transport plane, the reports of the rape attack not far from her mind. "My girlfriends and I are always bothered by these American servicemen," Teruya said. "I am scared." The disturbing...
...dead Jews into lampshades." Accommodating to evil is evil. But if this is your line, you had better really, really believe that discarding embryos is just like gassing Jews. That's because if you get your way, then real, fully formed people will suffer and die for your abstract point of principle. In fact, real people will suffer and die as a result of any compromise that partly accommodates your abstract principle. For that matter, real people will suffer and die because of the months every breakthrough has been delayed while Bush looks for a compromise. And because of Clinton...
...Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten - and nearly killed - but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to pictorial and finally symbolic representation. He teaches about integers by leading students on a tour of civil rights monuments. The kids then draw pictures of the journey and create number lines in which each stop represents an integer, and use them to add and subtract positive and negative numbers...
Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten--and nearly killed--but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to pictorial and finally symbolic representation. He teaches about integers by leading students on a tour of civil rights monuments. The kids then draw pictures of the journey and create number lines in which each stop represents an integer, and use them to add and subtract positive and negative numbers...