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...seek out risk,” he said. According to Mansfield, this “virtue,” while not exclusive to men, goes hand-in-hand with the different roles to which men and women are better suited. For instance, Mansfield said, men are more abstract and tend not to let their personal biases and emotions obstruct an argument. “All of the greatest philosophers have been men,” he said. “You’re so charming,” interjected Wolf, “but I’m profoundly...
...Ngiam ’07 and Currun Singh ’07, have collaborated with Swedish translators in the Harvard Scandinavian Club and the Athena Theater Company to merge two of Strindberg’s later plays. They have successfully created a coherent narrative, linking the themes of the abstract and dense “The Isle of the Dead” with the more expository language of “The Pelican.” Seen from the perspective of a dead man (James M. Leaf ’09) who must face his past before leaving it behind...
...Baek ’09, a UC representative from Straus Hall who designed the survey, said that it was the best way of including student opinion on both the physical and abstract aspects of the women’s center...
JOHNSON: We're getting smarter in certain ways--pattern recognition, problem solving, abstract problem solving, system thinking, system analyzing with complex sort of multiple variables, visual intelligence, obviously technological intelligence, ability to adapt to new interfaces and find the information you need. On all of those levels, kids are much brighter today than they were 20 or 30 years ago. And part of my argument is, if you're thinking about the office place of the future, what are the skills that are going to be the most important for those kids? Is it going to be mastering new interfaces...
...next generation of watercolorists further redefined the bounds of the sub-genre. As Europeans like Kandinsky, Miró, and Klee experimented with abstract watercolor composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism—took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...