Word: abstractedness
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Perhaps all this involved too optimistic a reading of Harvard's capacity for creativity and spontaneity. Perhaps it also involved too pessimistic a reading of the degree of our alienation from existing structures. Perhaps the problem lies with the Free University itself, which was not at the outset the best...
Santa Monica's Rand Corp. is home to some of the nation's most intimidatingly intellectual precisionists. But Rand has left itself open to the burlesque of, say, a Jerry Lewis abstracted-professor routine. Rand mailed out some 20,000 calendars for 1970 festooned with the thoughts of...
( Mr. Ponte, a liberation activist, plays host on a regular telephone-talk show on KPFK-FM, the Pacifica Foundation station in Southern California. This article is abstracted from his series "Quite Rightly So," copyright 1969 by the Los Angeles Image. He is currently writing a book, A New Right Reasoning...
To demonstrate, dancer Joan Blackmer--next to Miss Hahn, the troupe's most mature and accomplished performer--rudely pushed a chair across the stage. Then she repeated exactly the same gesture without the chair: we had passed to mime. Finally, again without the chair, she abstracted the gestures, exaggerating them...
Equally impressive is John McEnery, 25, who plays Mercutio not as a witty, lascivious buffoon but as a possessed genius who has lounged too long with his inferiors. His delivery of the Queen Mab speech is a masterpiece of abstracted art. Teetering on madness, he spouts the words as if...