Word: abstracted
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...unholy triumvirate." Less a coherent philosophy than an angle of inquiry, C.L.S. has roots in "legal realism," whose supporters in the 1920s and '30s began to argue that legal precedents could be found to support either side of most cases, and that judicial decisions depended less on the abstract "science" of law than on judges' personal predispositions, beliefs and prejudices...
...notion that an unacknowledged male ideology exists is not a frivolous one. Science and politics might be very different if women were more involved in the fields. Male thinking runs easily to the linear and abstract, and men's search for control does need examination. Beyond Power poses as such a work; instead, its 640 pages promise a rigorous analysis and deliver a series of cartoons. --By John...
...feeling that the songs are merely being overheard, that they are reporting something rather than making any statements—literally so in the case of “Venice,” a jokey play-by-play of an artist painting what seems to be an abstract crucifixion scene (complete with Italian voices and crowd noises...
...that is devoid of humanity. This economics has conquered America’s business education and become fused with the robber baron culture of greed supremacy. American MBAs are taught to treat ordinary employees as disposable costs and to swallow uncritically the gospel that corporations exist only to reward abstract stockholders. MBAs are taught the pretend-science of manipulating accounting, finance, employees, customers, and stock prices. Financial games and hostile takeovers of competitors are taught to accomplish corporations’ sole objective—to make money and manipulate stock prices. Such a mistaken view of corporations has caused...
...when Glenn, sitting in the library, watches a feather fall outside the window and becomes blinded by the setting sun. At first the panels evoke the hushed atmosphere of whispers and books sliding out of shelves. As the time becomes more compressed so do the panels, which contain increasingly abstract, fragmented images of birds, circles and strange creatures that seem out of a vision. All of this culminates in a double-sized page that you must fold up and out of the middle of the book to behold. A fearless comix approximation of a transcendental blinding, it contains science, religion...