Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year under Zariski, who is certainly competent, but some students find his accent bothersome (this hardly would appear a reason for avoiding his course). Van Vleck (4), is hard to follow, and before taking this course it is good to have had physics. 6 is very abstract, and requires a good deal of maturity in handling mathematical concepts. But under MacLane, it is excellent, though difficult...
Most readers require of prose that it make concrete sense as they think sense should be made. So Gertrude Stein, who uses prose to build a series of abstractions, either infuriates most readers or elicits defensive jeers. But readers who are willing to read words as they are willing to listen to notes in music-as things without an explicit message-can get from her work a rare pleasure. The three stories in her earliest (1909) book, Three Lives, being anchored to sense, are good ones to start on. Her latest book, Ida, much more abstract, is a good...
...hope that Mexico's President Avila Camacho will be partial to non-political Mexican art. Says non-political Artist Merida: "Painting makes its own politics, the artist doesn't need to mind politics. It is the land that speaks through my canvases, whether they are representative or abstract...
...Following is an abstract of a public lecture on "Medical Aids to Justices," given at the Medical School, Sunday afternoon, by Dr. Alan R. Moritz, professor of Legal Medicine...
...Following is an abstract of a public lecture on "How Accidents Happen" given at the Harvard Medical School yesterday by Dr. Henry C. Marble, Assistant in Industrial Hygiene at the School of Public Health...