Word: abstraction
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...from what can be called a productivity problem of its own. On the one hand, industrial lobbies dedicated to preserving the status quo have tremendous sway over politicians. And on the other, there is no doubt that increasing competition in the domestic economy will draw what are now very abstract concepts into harsh focus at the local level, bringing high unemployment (at least in the short term) and the chance of social unrest. That is a reality that Japanese society has routinely proven willing to put off at all costs. But Japan might be running out of extensions...
...reminder of how the practice helped feed one of Europe's greatest periods of intellectual fervor. Even though we were there to record the scandalized reactions of the crowd, many journalists spent the night craning to look at parts of ourselves that we had only pictured before in an abstract way. Is my liver really that big? And my brain that small? Could those two conditions possibly be related? I was fascinated by the corpse's gall bladder, an organ my doctor once threatened to remove, and which I had consequently associated only with pain and fear. Glistening, vibrantly colored...
...With all due respect, what you stated is extraordinarily abstract,’’ Dershowitz said according to the Boston Globe, which first reported the meeting. “That’s like asking someone to first vote for censorship, and then figure out later what is censored...
There are around 200 clubs at Harvard, and they’re all fighting for the attention, support and participation of 6,400 undergraduates. The majority of these student groups spend most of their advertising efforts on postering. But the kiosks look more like abstract art than carriers of potentially useful information, and students generally ignore swarms of overlapping posters. On the Harvard campus, where clubs are generally trying to attract individuals to actual events—not just flash a brand name and hope the subconscious picks it up—I wondered if there were more effective ways...
...modern art was art.) What Sheeler gradually realized was that the camera could find in the real world the fractured spaces of Picasso and the flat planes of Matisse. It could produce a picture of the side of a barn in which nothing had been altered but everything appeared abstract. It could give the old hat a fresh tilt...