Word: abstracted
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Avant-garde German�composer Karlheinz Stockhausen liked to say he was born on a planet near the star Sirius, and for fans of his abstract, complex music, it was a plausible theory. He made his name in the 1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Bj�rk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that...
...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently received a rare and unusual donation, including a paint-spattered hat, a pair of shoes, and a ladder. In addition to these objects, the gift included materials like brushes, paints, models, and preliminary works that once belonged to the influential Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman. Fragments of his paintings—stiff canvases with strips of red, green, and blue—sit in brown boxes in the Straus Center, crucial keys to Newman’s creative past. Newman made a name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which...
...This massively lopsided vote demonstrates the truth of then-President Derek C. Bok’s 1984 observation: “Americans give overwhelming support to free speech as an abstract proposition but quickly change their minds when they encounter concrete cases involving the expression of unpopular ideas.” Even as they voted to end a reasoned debate before even half of the professors with raised hands had been allowed to speak, 74 bearers of Ph.D.s and similar degrees failed to notice that they were themselves engaged in an exemplary suppression of free speech. Perhaps they even thought...
...face the issue of how the conversation about the Israel-Palestine issue in particular has been shut down, the principle of “free speech” will remain an empty, abstract principle. With my motion, I did not ask my colleagues to agree with me about Israel or even about the disadvantages of the dearth of high-ranking minorities on the Faculty Council and in the University administration—another major obstacle to dialogue among a necessary range of perspectives about University policy and practice. I asked them, as my partners in the pursuit of truth...
...only remarkably compelling, but also complemented the choreography perfectly. The choice honored the 70th birthday of its composer, Philip Glass, this year. The piece’s style also differentiated it from the other two dances. Choreographers conceived “On the Brink” as an abstract ballet, and the dancers’ performance was technically exquisite, with ensemble movement perfectly synchronized. The piece was by far the most energetic of the three, and “On the Brink” demonstrated a much clearer emotional journey than the preceding works. As the dance opened, the dancers...