Word: abstractionism
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The spiraling violence between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank reflects how much the question of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories goes beyond political abstraction: it is an issue that cuts to the very dignity and survival of both Arabs and Jews. For them, the looming battle...
Gomes feels that that faculty, staff and students whose homosexuality is "a fact of life, not just a lifestyle or an abstraction," should be able to identify their sexual orientation publicly, and thus feel more empowered to address their concerns. "People should not be intimidated into a deadly silence," says...
But there are no current plans to teach a Core class, or assume charge of Literature and Arts B-16: "Modern Art and Abstraction," popularly known as "Spots and Dots." Bois says he will eventually teach a large survey course, but he must first become accustomed to the Harvard system...
Robert Mapplethorpe's boys-in-bondage photographs made the right wing snort and paw the ground. But the left has its own kind of puritanism lately, which submits depictions of the human body to a test of political correctness. A 1964 work by Sol LeWitt failed the test of Elizabeth...
Then there is the issue of cost. To develop and administer national tests may take a great deal of money -- far more than the Bush Administration is requesting. The Administration is silent about who would pay for that, and how. The cost factor could mean brutal triage -- spend scarce education...