Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeing & Stretching. In 1907 she set up a school in Rome for obstreperous slum kids, using an arsenal of ingenious devices that moved from the sensory to the abstract. By handling and copying letters cut out of cardboard, the kids at four simply fell into writing and then reading. By feeling beads strung on wires in units of ten, they "saw" numbers and learned to compute in their heads. With the teacher acting only as guide, each child worked alone at his own little table or on a small rug, where he could lay out beads and blocks, and incidentally...
...together by ideals based on a spiritual unity. The Western world, says Dawson, "has become so deeply secularized that it no longer recognizes any common system of spiritual values, while its philosophers have tended to isolate the moral concept from its cultural context and have attempted to create an abstract subjective system of pure ethics. If this were all, we should be forced to conclude that modern Western society does not possess a civilization, but only a technological order resting on a moral vacuum...
...never bargained about anything", will be recognized in his resemblance to Dr. Rieux in The Plague. When you have read the description of Leynaud, turn to Homage to an Exile, later in the volume, and read these sentences: "I cannot love all humanity except with a vast and somewhat abstract love. But I love a few men, living or dead, with such force and admiration that I am always eager to preserve in others what will someday perhaps make them resemble those I love...
...warren known as Greenwich Village. He rents himself a studio in an alley littered with garbage and decorated with a sign that says: NO TOILET. Then out to the nearest gallery to see who's doing what. Everybody, he discovers, is doing violently chromatic doodles and calling them abstract expressionism. Timidly, he brings out his own slight, representational sketches-mostly of horses. The dealer studies them in obvious horror for a long time. "Marvelous," he says at last. "Horses, aren't they...
Jenkins calls himself an "abstract phenomenist." When he has finished four or five paintings. "I have conversations with them, and they tell me what they want to be called-like Phenomena Outside Leap or Phenomena Curving Out or Phenomena Flint Lock." As James Jones said, it is sometimes difficult to know what the hell he is talking about. But his liquid abstractions can speak for themselves...