Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What They Meant. The trouble began with a brief abstract in the A.M.A. Journal of a report on work done by a University of Oregon team of researchers. Delivered in San Francisco, the detailed paper described experiments done on a particular and unusual form of cancer in a particular strain of laboratory rats. Like some human cancers, this one will grow faster if the animals are given certain hormones, and will all but disappear under doses of other hormones...
...Stuart Davis once said. It was hot jazz, city jazz, that Davis painted, right up until his death at the age of 69 last week. He was rooted in the American soil, but that soil was concrete. He loathed the country and loved the city, specifically Manhattan, and his abstract but objective works are syncopations of urban life...
...have told so far tell best in a realistic way. I have nothing against the avantgarde. I feel little tendencies in myself bubbling in that direction. I thought I had darned well better be able to present living persons on the stage before I tried to distill and abstract them...
...Abstract as an apple, its tensile curves suggest nothing but nature as they wind around its 21-ft. height-an ideal counter to the squared shimmer of the Secretariat Building's facade. Symbolically, the bold bronze seems a play on the Swedish diplomat's name-a hammered shield. Inside the pierced circle of the design, Sculptress Hepworth has inscribed: "To the glory of God and the memory of Dag Hammarskjold...
...denounced for "bourgeois objectivism" and threatened with expulsion from the Communist Party. The least controllable of the 16-man Russian delegation picked to visit the U.S., Nekrasov panicked the tour leader by always going off on little walks of his own. He marveled at Manhattan skyscrapers and abstract art, happily guzzled Coca-Cola, bought aspirin on the advice of TV commercials. In passing, Nekrasov takes a swipe at Russian restaurants ("rank odors and the waitress like a she-wolf"), Russian films ("The old worker always has exactly the right answer for anything you ask him") and Russian secretiveness ("Excessive caution...