Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Wassily Kandinsky, 78, mild, Russian-born pioneer of abstract painting, longtime teacher at the famed German Bauhaus school; of edema of the lung; in Paris. Once a Moscow economist and lawyer, Painter Kandinsky experimented with colorful, carefully composed abstract pictures, believed that "even a poodle dog might learn how to draw...
Frost mentioned a letter he had received, asking him to explain "his philosophical tenets in the field of cosmology and set forth ideas on abstract things such as: quality, quantity." "I am in favor of both," said Frost with a grin...
...precisely like the British university don he was, and he discoursed on his cosmic subject with a wit and clarity rare among scientists. He set down in brook-clear language a masterly simplification of Einstein's theory of relativity, spent most of his life explaining the enigmas of abstract science for the benefit of laymen (The Nature of the Physical World, The Expanding Universe). He enlivened these lessons with attempts to calculate such incalculables as the heat of the sun (ten to 25 million degrees centigrade), the number of subatomic particles in the universe (the figure 3 followed...
...Americans are not careful, Professor Perry warned, they will find themselves insisting on abstract justice afar but perfectly willing to use power politics on issues closer to home involving questions more vital to the interests of the Western Hemisphere...
Scheinfeld observes that no overall comparison of male & female intelligence can be made. Women average higher in languages, esthetic skills (such as matching colors) and social accomplishments. But men show up better in tests for reasoning, ingenuity, comprehension, abstract thinking, mathematics, science. Scheinfeld thinks that male domination is not entirely responsible for the fact that no woman has ever produced a great invention, composed a great piece of music, or ranked with the great artists and writers. Says he: Women must always be handicapped in competition with men by the physical facts of life (childbearing, menstruation, etc.) and the necessity...