Word: abstraction
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...saying that abstract thought is the best—women are much closer to reality,” he said, adding that a great thinker combines both abstract and realistic thought...
...Shahar does not deny that his primary goal is to teach his students how to be happier and healthier, not to inundate them with abstract psychological theory. He wants them to learn how to feel better about themselves and become better citizens, not to slave over stuffy, abstract concepts they’ll never use in everyday life...
...It’s not like all college kids only listen to complex, abstract underground hip-hop,” Deleon of Tha League says. “If that were true, N.W.A., Mobb Deep, Public Enemy, and every hip-hop artist that’s ever been played on MTV would not be successful...
Ironically, these painterly qualities were probably the least original dimensions of Stella’s 1958 work. They were the main link between his painting and the abstract expressionism that immediately preceded it, and presumably it was Stella’s desire for true originality that let him to the reductive rigidity of the black paintings...
...That was the War on Terrorism he was describing. Terrorism is a means to an end, and so the war targets a violent and repressive ideology with a free and democratic one. It is abstract, high-altitude, long-term, a war of ideas, fought with ideals, and purple thumbs...