Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many as a hundred papers within a single week, must restrict his comment to a few marginal notes and a perfunctory summary at the end. The summary often goes something like this: "Able job. Well-organized and effectively argued. Especially strong in the middle section." Given such vague, abstract criticism, it is no wonder that students look forward only to learning their grades when they go to pick up their papers. What can anybody learn from such comments? Close critical comment is valuable, especially when made available to the student while the course is proceeding, so that he may learn...
...labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and music whose dream is to erase the great art of the past and to fill the void with a new consciousness: "So far, the sounds of electronic music are meaningless, like the drippings and droppings of the abstract expressionist and action painters, like the words and images that the beat poets seek to capture with a tape recorder during their mindless monologues or in the trances of drug-taking...They want to carry nothing forward, but to get rid of all their inherited aesthetic and intellectual lumber; they...
Though predominantly contemporary and abstract, the exhibition ranged the centuries. Yugoslavia sent reproductions of 22 of the country's 6,000 medieval Byzantine frescoes. There was a room of powerful Orozco oils from Mexico, a retrospective of Jacques Villon from France. The Soviet Union sent its customary assortment of Lenin portraits and statues of muscled workers. Cuba followed suit with some bearded Fidelistas and a ten-foot woodcut showing Uncle Sam, abetted by imperialist lackeys from the Associated Press and the United Press, stamping on the "bleeding Cuban people." Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art picked...
...past ten years, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 53, has not only been the leading woman painter of the School of Paris, but also has surpassed many of the men. Some critics have called her a "lyric expressionist," others an "abstract landscapist"; perhaps she is both and more. "With present techniques, an architect can build whatever he wants to," she says. "Why shouldn't I be able to build what I like in a painting?" Painter Vieira da Silva builds intricate constructions that never say, but only hint at what they...
...explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only the touted "Revolution by Design" is clearly different. Twenty-two different type sizes and faces greet the reader from the table of contents page. Photos are sometimes surprisingly abstract. Despite the new look (and a nickel price rise to 20?), pledges the Post, it will be the same "well-known, well-loved voice...