Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sign-language experts, however, reckon that it could take Lang as long as five years to master the abstract concepts necessary to stand trial. To that end, the judge ordered the Department of Mental Health to come up with a special educational program for Lang. Beaming over the judge's decision, Donald Paull, one of Lang's lawyers, flashed a victory sign to his client. But the small, muscular deaf-mute, who has spent almost a decade in one lockup or another, only shook his head, shrugged and frowned. Lang remained in confinement, but this week the court...
...gender; perhaps it never did. Cecilia Beaux's Sita and Sarita (1921) looks "feminine" when you know that it is the work of a once very popular American female portraitist, a gifted conservative with a relaxed, unemphatic and slightly languid style-but not until then. And with more abstract art, division by gender becomes meaningless. What sex is Alice Trumbull Mason's painting L'Hasard (1948)? One might answer: platonic...
Carter's transition from child to man is already well documented. His basic political world view probably was gathering itself in those years. A somewhat abstract appreciation of humankind, of the heroism of the everyday life, a little from Tolstoy, a little from Dylan Thomas. A growing sense that history could be nudged-even shoved-with some hardheaded planning and trying, as his own history showed. A slowly smoldering burn against a social order in which blacks had to take white meanness as a given. But in those days he did not say much of what he thought...
...Model Cities program and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also ran interference for Johnson in the 1966 creation of the Department of Transportation, a mammoth reorganization achieved in only eight months. One colleague recalls him, not entirely kindly, as "an empire builder who had a kind of abstract concern for the disadvantaged...
...guess one would say that a man who decided to roam alone, rather casually leaving wife and children behind him, and whose subsequent work tended to celebrate people in the abstract rather than the particular, is a man in capable of love as the term is usually defined. Noble as resistance to the customary may be, it generally makes for an infinitely more troubled, angry and difficult character than this movie portrays...