Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resolution of the Hartman affair by the GSD will be further impeded by the overwhelming collection of abstract and quasi-legal issues that are involved. If the faculty attempts to skirt these issues it would leave ground for fundamental challenge. But it could find itself in a hopeless debate if, for example, it tries to carve out the meaning and correct application of academic freedom. Such questions demand University-level study and definition, not ad hoc formulations by individual faculties...
...sounds. The precise form of his awareness isn't too important: "A vague anguish drifting from page to page is enough to demonstrate the existence of the bomb." The writer's totalization belongs to the domain of non-knowledge. But without it, he would be reckoning up an abstract world, not a living world, and that is the shallow goal of an entertainer or a fraud...
...THAT WAS how matters stood for many years. Oh, there was an embellishment here, an adornment there, and not all of these were without significance. There was the addition of gates to the increasingly abstract network of features: various targets or spinners might alter the topography of a machine by opening or closing a gate. There was a short-lived trend toward multiball games, with certain holes shooting a second or third ball into play while the first was still active. But these were no better than tail fins on a design moving steadily toward obsolescence. Until Bally created Wizard...
...Government's American Revolution Bicentennial Administration pay royalties for the use of ARBA's imprimatur, and those fees-4% to 15% of sales-have so far earned the Government $700,000 to help finance such projects as a coast-to-coast bicycle trail and ten massive abstract sculptures to be constructed along Interstate 80 in Nebraska...
Dolan said that the program should permit students "to get away from books and theory to see how the legal machine operates with all its blemishes and mistakes. Law school deals with law only in the abstract...