Word: abstractedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady Edith is feeling rather pipped, or she would shoot the python herself. From the reports of the villagers, it is a great, ropy beast-and it will creep forth to kill again after it recovers from a two-week digestive coma brought on by swallowing Lady Edith's...
The Modigliani is a famous portrait of an emaciated Jean Cocteau, a few basic colors and abstracted elements being used to establish space and volume with thin painting in places subtly suggesting further possibilities for the superimposition of planes.
Mr. Ginnes and Mr. Wallach have little in the way of taste or style, but, providentially enough, they have got Tom Poston to play the bibulating barrister. The idea of watching an actor stumbling and mumbling for nearly two hours is not an intrinsically attractive one, but Mr. Poston bears...
One group which has undertaken the revision of high school physics is the Physical Sciences Study Committee, a formidable corps of scientists, educators, and writers whose projects are financed by the government-appointed National Science Foundation. Housed in concrete and glass offices opposite M.I.T., the Committee's motivating assumption is...
Though he had heard quite a bit about Finchden Manor− school for maladjusted boys 25 miles southwest of Canterbury−the London Times correspondent was hardly prepared for the frail, abstracted man who runs it. "What is the curriculum?" asked the correspondent.