Word: abstractedly
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...discard, or politically, by observation of the inescapable parallels between the plight of gays and minority issues to which they have less resistance. As numerous discussions of "visibility" have stressed, it is far more difficult to hate a gay classmate or neighbor than to hate gays in the abstract. But that fact works against the gay movement when the push for recognition, which must be public and general, strays from firm legislative ground. Publishing a literary magazine, for instance, allows visceral responses or pseudo-scientific psychological argument to cloud the basic issue--that of the rights of a minority group...
Fairchild Republic had tried several management programs before, but had been unhappy with all of them. The new method of role playing and teaching by example seems to produce the best results. Says Linda Dwyer, supervisor of training and development: "The other programs were too abstract. They were entertaining, like the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, but they didn't get the ball downfield...
...shambles. The curator, Barbara Haskell, has neither thought her subject through nor wangled enough space to display it properly. Yet the show eerily mirrors much of the current confusion over what the "figurative" tradition in modern American art may be, where it lies, and what its relation to abstract...
...states of mourning and alarm. We have seen all this before. But the passions are out of proportion to the problem. It is almost as if the problem did not count, as if the islands could sink tomorrow and the war would continue to run on its own abstract fury...
...special programs and air their hopes and disappointments with Harvard University. If The Harvard Crimson would have been as receptive and sensitive to minority students as Dr. Counter has been, then we all could begin to communicate as equal partners. Without communication and understanding racial harmony remains simply an abstract idea. Mare A. Francis '83 Joseph A. Russ '83 Deborah Alvarez '83 Foundations Staff Members