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...problem lies in the disembodiment. Matisse was no more an abstract artist than Picasso. No abstract painter can claim descent from their work without acknowledging that fact. The worldly motif, especially the human body, and in particular the female body, was as basic to Matisse's art as it had been to Delacroix's or Titian's. His paintings vividly communicate a tension between what he called "the sign" and the reality it pointed...
America needs to restock its repertoire of folklore and self-images and archetypes. The 1992 presidential campaign has made its noisy way across a nation that has lost many of its defining ideas about itself. The cold war's end gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking...
...published in 1977, but the English vocabulary has so ballooned since then that a fifth was necessary. At $16.95 for 325,000 words and phrases, the new Roget's is a bargain. Lexicographer Robert L. Chapman has revised and reordered many of Roget's 1,000 or so mainly abstract category headings (Existence, Relation, Quantity) and made them more accessible. To these he has added 31 new topics, including Fitness, Exercise, Substance Abuse, Space Travel, Computer Science and the Environment (listing more than 100 pollutants), though some of these are rearrangements and expansions derived from previous editions...
...Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence Tribe put, it,. a "clash of absolutes." In previous eras, the conflict between two valid and irreconcilable principles was recognized as part of human political life and called tragedy. Nowadays, we act as if every problem had a solution. But appeals to abstract principle, such as the Court uses in its decisions are not they way to resolve a tragic conflict, whose very force derives from the army of principles arrayed on both sides...
Congress has to take the responsibility for resolving the abortion issue--not "solving the problem" in an abstract, absolute way. They should allow Americans the opportunity to solve the comflict on their own in an atmosphere of proper moral seriousness. The supporters of the unadulterated Freedom of Choice Act should stop insisting on a victory of principles over people, and start working on a legislative compromise that secures abortion rights while respecting the moral ambiguities and conflicts that American perceive in this issue...