Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. In Furry's testimony, for an instance, the physics professor stated that he felt the committee had no right to inquire into his beliefs. Yet, he was willing to go into detail about his views against fascism. The tremendous concern with academic freedom as an abstract doctrine often caused men to tacitly implicate a university in their refusal to answer questions. The rationale of those who used the Fifth Amendment was best stated in a letter to the CRIMSON from New York lawyer Leonard B. Boudin on March 19. "...In refusing to cooperate with the Velde and Jenner committees...
...Confident Author. Musil's book is slow and heavy-footed, often bogs down in long passages of abstract speculation about the problems his characters face. In his own fashion, however, Novelist Musil is often sardonically effective. The human soul, he writes, "is simply what curls up and hides when there is any mention of algebraic series." And "at night a man has only a nightshirt on, and what comes next under that is the character." With a kind of pachyderm playfulness, Novelist Musil encourages his characters to blow themselves up-the better to measure their hollowness...
...Mestrovic calls the statue Man and Freedom, and into its graceful, classical pose he has poured the philosophy that guides him through his work. Says he: "Sculpture and art in general should contribute to human civilization, to human progress and mankind's spiritual development. In my opinion, 'abstract in art' is only another slogan. All great art must be expressed within the limits of form. As thought must be expressed in form, so the craftsmanship of 'the artist must be subjected to the discipline of honest workmanship...
Serious art was the farthest thing from Emanuel's mind when he took up the brush in 1943. At first, he toyed with the idea of merely smearing abstract designs on the canvas. "I said to myself, 'the police don't understand anything about art, and it won't matter if I just paint stripes or circles.' " But he found himself copying a crystal candlestick and a blue porcelain vase which he saw in his studio. "Much to my surprise," he says, "something decent actually turned up." Emanuel grew a husky white beard to complete...
...20th century has seen almost everything in the way of abstract sculptures, from huge sheets of hammered copper to tiny, tinkling aluminum mobiles. But Naum Gabo, a 62-year-old Russian, is the first sculptor to make his work almost invisible. Last week a syth Street gallery showed a few of his sculptures, mostly pieces of transparent plastic put together in sharp angles and looping curves to form abstractions as still and shiny-and about as warming-as winter sunlight...