Word: abstraction
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...years during which she completed The Age of Maturity, Claudel struggled ever harder to find a style distinct from Rodin's. Working under the spell of Art Nouveau and Japanese prints, she produced some fascinating small exercises like The Wave, in which a near abstract surf of marble/onyx rises above three capering nudes. But the Detroit show is frank in acknowledging the timidity, repetition and sheer mediocrity of some of her late work. Yet even when she was turning out retrograde sculptural commissions for the Countess de Maigret, who served for a time as her patron, she could not help...
...Howard is not all abstract words. He balances his sterile language by staging sensual, mid-life forays with thinner women, whose simple lives Smith seems to despise...
...benefits, even checking L. Ron Hubbard’s “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” —the book that started the religion some 50 years ago—out of Lamont. I’d spent my school year studying abstract critical theory (I’m an English concentrator), and now I wanted to study abstract religious hucksterism...
...worries most likley stem not from the frustration caused by lack of opportunity after college but instead from the overwhelming number of possibilities. Though the notion that you can “be anyone” and “do anything” may seem liberating in the abstract, it is far from comforting—fretting about which door to open can be as debilitating as having no doors...
...finding that children can comprehend abstract numbers suggests that different teaching methods might make math easier for them to learn, Spelke added...