Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Morgan treats his highly technical subject in an eminently readable fashion. He makes the course of the trials, the many important personalities involved in the case, and the abstract legal problems entirely clear to the reader without ever losing his dignified and scientific tone...
...admirers call his "genius look" won him an instant audience on both campuses. But the theater almost emptied after the first act. Professor Tolman wryly congratulated Oppenheimer on his first lecture: "Well, Robert, I didn't understand a damn word." He had lectured at a breakneck pace, in abstract prose punctuated by a dozen distracting mannerisms...
...landscapes," Hopkinson explained I'm concerned with the flow of line in a mountain or a tree-the gesture of the thing." To capture it he works even faster than most watercolorists, using fluid and staccato strokes of vibrant color, but unlike more abstract moderns he never lets "the gesture of the thing" obscure the thing itself. "Being a sentimentalist, I want to get across the pleasure of what I see in nature...
After investigating many patients, Freud decided that the basis of almost all personality conflicts is "sexual." He used the word in a very broad sense to include all kinds of love and pleasure, from eating to a fondness for abstract thought. His emphasis on sex caused bitter breaks with two of his most famous followers: Carl Jung, who was sniffy about Freud's emphasis on "sexuality" in infants, and Alfred Adler, who believed that a "drive for power" was equal in importance with "sexual urges...
This production of "Troilus and Cressida" will be experimental in character, with scenery and costuming planned along abstract lines. HTW is also eager to use the facilities of the first real theater in which they have ever played...