Word: abstractedness
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ALTHOUGH SUCH A DISTINCTION between morality in consciousness and in action can hardly be as simple as Trilling implies, the whole task he has undertakes--to trace modern shifts in conscious moral categories--eventually makes this study tantamount to a much-abstracted cultural history of the past four centuries in...
HER STORY almost runs as a repeat of Milos Forman's film on the same subject, "Taking Off," But Forman's film was infinitely better, because it was more believable. It is perhaps the best movie ever made about adoleacent alienation and parent-child relationships in modern day America. Those...
Arabesques. Nowhere in Matisse's work is this heroic quality more striking than in a set of four bas-reliefs of a woman's back, which he worked on intermittently from 1909 to 1930. They give an extraordinary vision of his working methods in all their tenacity. The...
The quiet country town is almost palpably evil, a microcosm of the easy enmity and casual brutality that David and Amy hoped to leave behind them. It is a place isolated, almost abstracted, from the rest of the world. The villagers regard David with a cordial disdain. Amy is seen...
There are still moments of piercing sadness. Such as when one of Beverly's recordings is on the phonograph, and Muffy puts her fingertips to the speaker to "feel" the sound. Or when Beverly grows uncharacteristically abstracted, her voice trailing off, the brightness fading from her face. Then, as those...