Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with a slice removed and aluminum tubing tied with string. The whole kids Roy Lichtenstein's slick abstract "Modern Sculptures" and a high-flown review that attacked their "weakness...
Cunningham's dance does demand a prepared or prewarned audience. Like the abstract artists who design his sets and costumes--Frank Stella, Warhol, and Rauschenberg--and the electronic musicians composing his scores--John Cage, David Tudor, and Earl Brown (husband of Carolyn Brown)--Cunningham explicitly denies traditional unities of the dance...
...Nixon has finally said something that demands our respect and our thought. His declaration that "we have to get private enterprise into the ghetto" is a concrete suggestion. For too long the average American has seen the ghetto as an abstract horror of human existence. For too long, the average American has bought off "his own sense of guilt" by trying to alleviate poverty through his tax money. It is time to eliminate government as a cure all for the problems of the Negro. Government has tried, and failed. It is time to reassert our humanity and take private, individual...
Here, as in Nabokov's more sophisticated novels, an important theme is the nature of fiction itself. By putting his comic trio through a series of abstract stances-a modification of the futurist and expressionist influences that swept the arts in the '20s-he never allows the reader to forget that fiction is essentially artifice. In King, Queen, Knave, the artifice may be a little too obvious, but intelligence and wit keep it working smoothly to the end. Nabokov himself could well have been thinking of this "bright brute" when he described a certain variety of butterfly...
...certain meaning of the phrase. One kind of stream of consciousness (represented in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse) is a highly sensitive awareness limited to what is actually happening around the character and the immediate associations the environment brings. Dylan's is more historic, but in an abstract sense. On the personal level of experience, Dylan and the characters of his songs (most of whom are "I") never worry about the past or future. But most of his songs are based on echoing previous abstracted intellectual experience (like what Woody Guthrie meant to him or religious imagery...