Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next came the hugely complex Agon, Balanchine's danced counterpoint to Stravinsky's brilliant, abstract score (TIME, Dec. 16). Two weeks ago Balanchine presented the elaborately costumed Gounod Symphony, an intricate construction on the French composer's first symphony...
With a toe-danced hoedown, a flight of several light-years into the abstract, an astringent costume piece and last week's boisterous blast of Fourth of July fireworks, Balanchine accomplished the richest and most varied season of his immensely productive career...
...Girl with Mirror; San Francisco's Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond Fitzgerald for his ashcan-ish My Studio; Manhattan's Sidney Gross for his abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners: Peter Abate of Brookline, Mass, for. his tamely symbolic marble Beginning of Life; Arnold Geissbuhler of Manhattan for a bronze Bird, whose cock...
...film then gains its merit from sheer movement and color and makes its myth come momentarily true in the abstract as if it were an opera and not a supposed documentation of an historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted...
Principal among current misconceptions: 1) the free economic system is inherently more productive in all fields than the despotic system; 2) time is always on the side of the West-irrespective of how the West wastes its time; 3) merely because of abstract virtue the triumph of freedom over totalitarianism is inevitable...