Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From then on, the students seemed less sure of themselves. Solarz shifted to questions about the Eritrean rebellion in Ethiopia and the civil war in Rhodesia. The students seemed confounded. "You are asking us to perform a great abstraction," complained Álvarez. "No, I'm not," said Solarz, "I...
In the meantime we have to assume that the blackmail of the state, and not only the Italian state through the kidnaping of political leaders, is a technique that we have to live with, and our leaders sometimes die with, to make willingness to be a sacrifice to the law...
NO GRAND RHETORICAL pronouncements. No simple enemies to hate, such as white people in general. "We're no longer talking in the narrow, nationalist terms of the late '60s," the big man, Grantland Johnson, says. "We've attempted to build this movement in a multi-racial manner, because it's...
It was the Party whose awesome structure harnessed that inchoate emotion which, with the force of a tidal wave, drove millions of people around the globe toward Marxism. It was the Party whose moral authority gave shape and substance to an abstraction, thereby making of it a powerful human experience...
He was completely a child of abstract art. "Whatever interest I have in people," he once memorably told a reporter, "I have with them in daily contact. I don't want them walking around in my painting." Because of the extreme, not to say polemical, purity of his obsessions...