Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom do Americans eagerly read such a book as this-a modest, 285-page exposition of abstract political theory called The Managerial Revolution. But few books of political theory pack such a punch as this does. Even its slyly casual subtitle promises to tell them something they want desperately to know-What Is Happening in the World...
...fickle, indiscreet Japanese" who give away their plans and allow other nations to prepare against them. Germany, said Kokumin, "remains a sphinx and acts unexpectedly with lightning speed." By coincidence, only three days earlier the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language organ of the Foreign Office, had published an "abstract exploration for a possible world peace" which was either a pipe dream of the future or the frankest, completest and grimmest Fascist plan to date for the New World Order...
Together with Germany's published propaganda dividing the world into four economic areas (see map), the "abstract" made one thing clear: Germany and Japan do their diplomatic thinking along deadly parallels. But whereas Germany's appeasement feeler was designed to convince unanalytical U.S. citizens of its reasonableness, no matter what its intent, Japan's was a blunt invitation to the U.S. to abdicate as a great power. The plan...
...Eugene O'Neill's "The Great God Brown" was first produced as an experiment. It was an experiment because its abstract theme, as O'Neill says, is hidden "dimly behind and beyond the words and actions of the characters." The play's message is not to be found directly in the dialogue or in the body movements, but "manifests itself as an overtone." This, then, is the problem in expression which the Harvard Dramatic Club undertook last night at Sanders Theatre...
...bronze heads, a man's and a woman's, are realistic and natural, differing markedly from the abstract and symbolic art usually associated with the African Negro artisans. In refinement of modeling and detail the Ife heads are regarded as being on a level with fine works in the European tradition. Discovery of the heads went far to revise anthropologists' ideas of the level of Negro metal arts in Africa...