Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maps published a year ago showed where the San River ran, past towns with unpronounceable names, out of the Carpathian foothills; the stories told in plausible, abstract terms how populations would be shifted from this side to that side of new lines on a map. Neither maps nor stories showed the whitewashed cottages of Galicia nor told how the people who lived there felt about...
...lives in New York City and is working on another book, was reared in the rarest air of German intellectualism. Son of a Berlin pas tor, he was subject to spasms of brattish rage, until his adoring mother taught him how much safer it was to hurl abstract arguments instead of "all kinds of physical objects." By the time he was 13, sharp-witted Franz had logically argued his sisters into incurable neuroses, and ruled the household with an "intellectual regime of terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that of the German intellectual middle class...
...scholars finally agreed that democracy can be measured by two "signs" and two "conditions." The signs: shared power and shared respect. The conditions: economic balance (poverty leads to despotism) and enlightenment. One flaw in Webster's abstract definitions: areas of despotism can exist in a democracy, and he doesn't say so. The film shows such areas of despotism within U.S. democracy as the Ku Klux Klan, a resort accepting only a "selected" (Christian) clientele...
Gradually Peggy built up an outstanding collection of modern art. Some of it was hard to get. "It is very difficult to talk prices to [the abstract sculptor] Brancusi. ... I was aware of this and hoped my excessive friendship with him would make things easier. But . . .we ended up in a terrible row, when he asked four thousand dollars for the Bird in Space. . . . Brancusi polished all his sculptures by hand. I think that is the main reason why they are so beautiful...
...began to be an artist in Druskiensiki, Lithuania, when he was only eight. His earliest works were carefully painted white in imitation of the plaster casts he saw at school. At 18, Lipchitz hotfooted to Paris, became the youngest member of the Cubist group, quickly developed the muscular, semi-abstract style...