Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morgan, you see, is a man who "acts out his fantasies," and his main fantasy is that he, Morgan, is an ape. This is a wonderful idea for a gag, and someday, perhaps, a very funny, light picture will be made out of it. David Warner, who plays Morgan in...
The hero's metaphysical underpinnings have been giving way for centuries. Professor George M. Harper of the University of North Carolina points out that "the Greek and Shakespearean concept of the hero as an essentially noble man created in the image of his Creator and sharing his attributes is...
Satanism & Embroidery. The largest Beardsley exhibit ever shown opened last week in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. And though the artist's work seemed to critics of his time as saccharinely pornographic as orgies sculpted in marzipan, the exhibition recalls his widespread influence. Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch...
That the society has so long tolerated this legislation reveals how easily Americans are seduced by the facile identification of one bright abstraction. Education, with another bright abstraction, the National Interest.
A Quick One with Darwin. Tahiti existed m the imagination of Europe before the Europeans sighted its shores Ever since the decline of the notion of original sin, philosophers of the Enlightenment had tried to account for man's lamentable condition. The state of nature remained an abstraction until...