Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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By leaving that last word adangle, Wilder presses home his conviction that man's story is unending and that come what may, man will prevail. The thought is unarguable, but its demonstration leaves the reader with characters who are merely symbols and a story that is an abstraction. After...
At the center of reality is the family. Until recently, worshiping one's ancestors was the highest spiritual duty; to be loyal to one's kinsmen is still for most the highest social duty. Legend abounds with stories of filial devotion, including the boy Meng who lured the...
Part of the distrust of the law-and of legal doctrine-is explained by the general Chinese dislike of abstraction. The Chinese intellect tends not to distinguish between general and particular ideas. The Chinese resists logical analysis in the Aristotelian either/or sense. He reasons in what, to the Western mind...
>First prize: Jules Olitski. 44, for his lightly brushed, veil-like Pink Alert. >Second prize: Paul Jenkins, 44, for a cloudlike abstraction, Astral Signal. > Third prize: John McLaughlin, 68, California abstractionist, for No. 14. >Fourth prize: Kenneth Noland, 42, for a hard-edged, blue-banded Pause.
Metaphysical Mystery. The reader is told nothing of Y's origin or personality; he is an abstraction. There are no women in the novel, and sex is never mentioned. Just before the trial scene, however, the book offers a few clues to Y's wherefore. Y admits to...