Word: abstraction
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Some members worry, however that while direct elections may seem like a good idea in the abstract, in practice they could do more harm than good...
...suite has a different impact than the full musical play. Partly because years of intensive training cannot be fully expunged from the dancers, partly because details of personality are lost as the action is streamlined, the conflict becomes more abstract. Officer Krupke is a police whistle. The dancers' gestures should be forceful and realistic, but some of the performers, including Jock Soto as the Shark leader, are too stylized. Occasionally what should be a fight becomes a rite...
...these saucy lads and lasses are merely a misunder-stood band of Realists ready to defend the fort against rabid Continetal philosphers clutching copies of Sartre, Foucault, Kuhn and Rorty? If so, these intellectual roues deserve much adulation. Actually, Peninsula seems much more interested in debates about homosexuality than abstract issues in epistimology. But, it is in the best tradition of the public intellectual to lend one's mind to social debates of import, so let's see what they...
...great deal of credit is due to Amalie Weber, the choreographer, who has managed to effect the transition from ordinary motion to dance so that, for a few moments as the music starts, the actors seem stylized, abstract. The occasional use of loud rock music, like the psychedelic light show which indicates Constance's fall into the play, is unnecessary, but it is never a serious flaw...
...writer. If you look carefully at my short "stories," you will see that they are actually nothing but black marks on paper, abstract drawings. People only think they are stories! I have fooled everyone...