Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the spring of 1945 the Student Council took a poll which opened the gate on the long road to building a memorial to the Harvard dead of World War II The poll, at the time nothing but an abstract expression of student opinion, showed undergraduates almost unanimously in favor of the construction of a Student Activities Center. Last spring the Council moved the results of its poll out of theory into practice and placed itself solidly behind the building of a Center as a war memorial. Shortly after the Crimson and the Alumni Bulletin joined the Council...
...Jeans grew older, he gradually became preoccupied with abstract philosophy. Sample problem: Is the material world an illusion, and thought the only reality? Such abstractions hold small interest for most of the modern public, and Jeans's last book, Physics and Philosophy, was little read...
...police had found Nazi documents mentioning one Claude Lormeau, a bearded painter who had fought with the Germans against the Russians. In the hut there was also an abstract painting by Lormeau, on the back of which was a remarkable gouache: a black face with bulging white eyes. It looked exactly like the head of the corpse. Had Lormeau killed Vintenon to provide a model for this gouache? Experts testified that the gouache had been done months before the murder...
...colored with a pink glow which brightened until it was easy to read your reborn writing by the light in the sky. And we catch one picture that we will never forget, that will never be merged in a great mass of faces, impersonalized, romanticized, forgotten except in the abstract. It is a view, Inchball, of part of that which has made you, of those who have made you, but who have left you never to return, even for a fleeting nostalgic, invigorating moment...
...understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions of his times are intolerable. finding that the times are out of joint, Wilson has, like Hawthorne, discovered in the Puritan method of allegory, with its abstract concept of Evil, the only possible vehicle for his story...