Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...integrated paper "won't contain any major surprises," Rosovsky promises, "but it will be the first time people can really look at the thing." Now, he says, "we can lift the discussion out of the realm of general, abstract discussion into specific regulation...
Basically, the new fountain makers use water to set off sculptural shapes that evoke nature but are in themselves totally abstract. Even in areas of water scarcity, fountains, thanks to efficient recycling systems, do not waste much water, and modern architects are free to enhance austere downtown buildings with sweet sound and motion or, using water in pools, give majesty to otherwise humdrum plazas...
...response is sharply critical. Says Duke University Law Professor George Christie: "Dworkin misconceives what legal decision making is all about. He views it as the search for right answers rather than a process for producing adequate justifications for legal decisions. Actual cases are simply too complicated to abstract into clear rights and clear duties...
Some of the professor's critics find his ideas, as one puts it, "impossibly abstract, which is not to be confused with being cerebral." Yet Carter has no such complaint and appreciates Brzezinski's ability to articulate ideas...
...does he do it? By reserve-literally, by inhibition, the mother of taste. Significantly, he entitled an early "self-portrait" of 1947-48 Homely Protestant, a phrase he picked at random from a page of Joyce. Motherwell was not the only Wasp among the New Yorkers who created abstract expressionism, but he was certainly the most conscious of his puritan background. The son of a California banker, he perceived America as a land of constraint-the abode, so to speak, of the superego. Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town...