Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...split second pause, Times Square loafers thought of almost anything but what followed around the corner: ABSTRACT...
...collection of pure "nonobjective" paintings, lately shown in Philadelphia (TIME, Feb. 15). Now housed partly in the Guggenheim house at Port Washington, N. Y.. partly in Mr. Guggenheim's apartment at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, the collection will be the nucleus for a museum of abstract art of which the Baroness was named curator. To educate the U. S. public in the debatable serenities and excitements of painting which represents nothing but colored space, the Foundation is chartered to provide lectureships, scholarships, exhibitions and publications. Wrote Solomon Guggenheim to his new trustees: "I desire to encourage...
...them, --the news from Russia and Germany almost daily illustrates the intellectual tyranny of a totalitarian state. There can be little room, indeed, for a nonconformist in a country where the Minister of Education declares: "The old idea of Science based on the belief in the supremacy of the abstract intellect is finished. The new Science is sharply differentiated from the conception that its honor lies in the everlasting nature of the search for truth." And now much room for spiritual freedom is there in a land where one of the scholars writes that "The teachings of Marx and Lenin...
...last of the learned professions to accept women practitioners. Traditionally it was felt that law and women had little in common. It was said: "Law is logical, women are intuitive"; "law is abstract; women deal best with the concrete"; "law requires long, sustained application; women excel in short spurts." It was in 1864 that an Iowa woman first sought admission to the bar. By 1910 there were only 558 women lawyers in the U. S. Now there are more than 4,500, of whom 1,000 are in New York City...
...join with several thousand other New England collegians for a meeting in the interests of peace. Their mass demonstration will take the form of a strike, and this strike will be notable for the number and variety of issues they oppose. Not satisfied with merely crusading for an abstract, effervescent peace, the students have decided to direct their disapproval against war and the forces which make for war; compulsory military training in schools and colleges; the billion dollar war budget; teachers' oath laws and similar restrictions of American civil liberties; and finally, against the Fascist aggression in Spain...