Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most serious danger inherent in the committee's work is that it may be too abstract in its consideration. The more mundane problems of assembling a college class--those recognized by Dean Bender but unrecognized by many who do not have to deal with them--cannot be solved by the vote of a faculty committee. Most important, the CEP sub-committee must remember that the objectives of undergraduate education and admissions are not those of graduate preparation for filling its own profession's ranks...
...layman who know?s nothing about art but suspects that abstract painters are off their rockers won support last week from a Paris physician who has treated about 70 abstractionists in the last ten years. Not only are they sick, said Dr. Elie Bontzolakis in the weekly Arts, but "the more abstract, the sicker they...
...Bontzolakis is not alone in equating abstractionism with emotional disturbance. Arts quoted another Paris doctor: "In abstract art, the process of creation is ... the famous Rorschach test reversed." Said another: "Abstract art translates a disturbance which is perhaps only the anguish of these painters backed against the wall...
...raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family for the heart of Africa. There, amid parching heat and native stench, his ironic adventures form a highly abstract quest for the meaning of life and death, illusion and reality...
Broad knowledge will not be pre-digested for New College students; it will come as a natural consequence of exploration, of "getting around" in their subjects. Methods are best introduced, not in the abstract, but in action. The fall freshman seminar will teach methodology by exploring limited subjects, each teacher deciding on a subject and its limits with a view to best showing a group of about thirteen students how he works, and how they can work, in using his discipline...