Word: abstractedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Worrier. If Twelve is blithe, Thirteen is reflective, abstracted. He may join the family to watch TV for a while, but he will abruptly rise and leave the room for no reason at all. He often likes to be alone, begins locking up his possessions to keep them from...
The movie is filmed inside the forest--there aren't any false great scenic vistas. In each sequence there are usually trees overhead--so that the life shown isn't abstracted from the forest. The death of a fox is seen as a fox would see it.
On the podium offscreen was Musical Director Peter Herman Adler, wearing a particularly abstracted look because the music of his orchestra impinged directly on one ear, while the singing of the distant cast and chorus entered his other ear through a headphone. If he wanted to see how the action...
Neutrons with Goldfish. There was much to appreciate. Fermi emerges from the book as alte'rnately serious and gay, abstracted but practical. He is modest about major accomplishments (his dis coveries in physics), vain about minor ones (his physical endurance in mountain climbing). His wife plainly worships him, but...
PATCHIN PLACE is a little street of three-story brick houses, with an iron gate at one end and a fence at the other, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. From this street, where the tree of heaven which also grows in Brooklyn thrusts bravely upward from narrow sidewalks, a...