Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lived in the barrio for ten years. I spoke the language. The Los Angeles novel, in a purely abstract sense, would not be about Anglo people. Palm Latitudes is a book that wrote itself out of the aesthetics of the region. My feeling when I came to the end of it was "Yes, I see that. The 20th century is increasingly to live in the palm latitudes...
...Although my professional avocation is mathematical economics--it is a bit abstract--I have been involved in the past in progressive politics," says Mas-Colell with characteristic understatement...
...flood of picture taking brought profound changes to magazine illustration. Pictures assumed a narrative life of their own. Photographers were inspired by the analytical vision of abstract art and even more by the use of multiple perspectives in movies. Photography retained its enormous claim to objectivity in recording the world, but personal vision gained a new importance. German critics summed up the rapid evolution with the term Foto- auge (photo-eye), or photography as a mechanical form of seeing...
Still, a puritan conscience recoils a little from the sheer power of photographs. They have lingering about them the ghost of the golden calf -- the bright object too much admired, without God's abstract difficulties. Great photographs bring the mind alive. Photographs are magic things that traffic in mystery. They float on the surface, and they have a strange life in the depths of the mind. They bear watching...
California's big number was 6.9. But either a Richter scale is too abstract, or the numbers it produces aren't satisfyingly meaty enough. Right from the beginning, Ted Koppel was begging for some casualty counts that he could spread around...