Word: abstractedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recruitment techniques, research fellows, housing and schooling, and start the Faculty talking about how to determine priorities for growth. Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History and one of the seven on the Committee, suggested at the meeting Tuesday that the Faculty is no longer able to make abstract decisions on academic policy (how to run tutorials, for instance) without tallying up the costs. This kind of economic realism runs all through the report and the Committee finally challenges the very informal structure by which growth is directed here...
...essays are the sun and sea of the North African shore, his remembrances of family, and his feeling for the physical life of the Mediterranean people. They illustrate the philosophical turn of mind that alienated him from his Algerian countrymen, whose basic attitude toward living left no room for abstract speculation. An old woman buys her own tomb and grows to love it. This teaches Camus the value of the present moment: "Let me cut this minute from the cloth of time. Others leave a flower between pages, enclosing in them a walk where love has touched them with...
PORTRAITS of Saul Steinberg, William Faulkner, Giacometti (running to breakfast in the rain) show another facet of his genius. He gathers up wonderful details of his subjects' surroundings to capture them and attach them to a real world, rather than idealize and abstract them. The Faulkner picture sticks in my mind in such a way that whenever I think of him, I return to his face and thin body and yet also to the small lean dog who stretches behind...
Barnett Newman created a "Lace Cur tain for Mayor Daley" made of the barbed wire used for police barricades in August and spattered with red paint. Robert Motherwell decided to send two already completed abstract expressionist canvases. "The significance is to participate," he said. "This show represents the politics of feeling, not the politics of ideology." Sculptor Robert Morris settled for a telegram. His suggestion: redo the Chicago fire...
Simons concedes that Christianity needs a teaching body, and he believes that the Pope is and should be the principal spokesman for this magisterium. But he also argues that those who claim to speak and define God's word should base their right not on an abstract and untenable theological doctrine but on fidelity to Scripture. "For both preachers and audience," says Simons, "the final fount of the Gospel message is in the New Testament books, the only extant documents connecting us with verifiable certainty with Jesus and his message." He concludes that by keeping faithful to the record...