Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building's parasol roof. Le Corbusier indignantly photographed the grease spots left by the cars beneath his splendid arches, and snapped: "What sort of judges are these who do not obey the traffic laws?" Five of the eight judges decided that they did not like the abstract cubist tapestries Le Corbusier designed for their courtrooms, had them hauled down. "They should confine themselves to being judges of law," growled Corbu, "not set themselves up as judges...
Faculty members generally agree--on an abstract level--that undergraduate education is best served when the student and the professor can discuss the material at hand on a man to man basis. They agree--in theory--that a grade or a written comment is an unsatisfying substitute for the give and take of a first hand discussion and explanation. But somehow or other, the theory as well as the professor disappear every year at this time--professors have an annoying habit of going incommunicado both before and after they have graded senior honors theses...
...tradition. There have been many Christian traditions at Harvard. The University's religious commitment has expanded form a narrow Calvinism to the lack of commitment which represents the modern Harvard. Since the late nineteenth century, Harvard's religious tradition has been based upon a minimal moral faith and an abstract principle called "Veritas." The tradition has been inclusive rather than exclusive, one of multiplicity rather than conformity...
While there is a recession in the U.S. economy, one group of Americans more accustomed to bust than boom is in the midst of a new wave of prosperity. They are Manhattan's abstract expressionist painters, who until three years ago could rarely afford to move out of their coldwater, walk-up studios. Now their shows are selling out, and at record high prices...
...litany begins in Persia (Sitwell refuses to call it Iran) with the gold and blue mosques of Meshed and Isfahan: "It is a physical architecture calling almost for sexual admiration, but is it preeminently feminine? Where all the women go veiled, are the blue domes of Persia so many abstract emblems of femininity...