Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who introduced the tabling motion, said that the Faculty, as a collective body, should not take a position "on a matter of abstract principle, in either educational, social or political policy." To raise the issue of the draft again this year would require a majority vote to take the original anti-2-S resolution from the table...
...which is about a decade old now-Robbe-Grillet feels that nothing is so fatal to literature as a concern with "saying something." In his earlier and even more maddening works (The Voyeur, Jealousy), he regarded his characters as objects, and he has extended his experiments in the baffling abstract film scenarios for Last Year at Marienbad and L'Immortelle. "The world is neither significant nor absurd," says...
Serious Spontaneity. Hals's spontaneity has appealed to modern artists. Van Gogh praised "his way of stating the subject right away at one sweep." Manet hailed Hals's ability "to set down, at the first stroke, what one sees." Even the U.S. abstract expressionists found justification for their pure play of paint in Hals's practice of working without preliminary drawings...
...astute teen-bopper, you listen to the lyrics of Rock 'n' Roll as well as feel the sound. The words have evolved simultaneously with the music: from the sex of hard rock, to Dylan's abstract symbolism of protest and drug experiences, to the more naturalistic and commonplace lyrics of the Spoonful sound...
...seems to me that these are the significant issues in evaluating the McNamara incident. Beyond these abstract considerations, there is a definite incongruity in insisting on proper decorum when the underlying question is of attitudes toward a vicious war, or of being concerned with not embarrassing a guest when the questions he raises concern the fundamental nature of our society. NORM DIAMOND Teaching Fellow in Government