Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins of language are identification of words with things and the misuse of abstract terms...
...undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright is their worthy peer...
...winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have so often done in the past-talk abstract principles while advocating legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard historical menage-Daughter Miriam, her husband Dr. Vagts and their precocious eight-year-old son Detlev- live in even greater retirement...
...Spanish Government Building of the International Exposition. Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation of surrealist and abstract painting. In the U.S. an abstract painting, The Yellow Cloth by Cubist Georges Braque, won First Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (TIME...
...thinking, should look like the sea," says Artist Waugh. "Personally, my own liking is for purely decorative design, running into the abstract. I claim painting has qualities like music, if one goes after them-a thing in itself, not in existence before it is painted into existence...