Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason it has traditionally been differentiated from other comparable personal decisions and treated as a public issue. The main reason is that, simply, abortion is not a personal issue that confronts men, and men, for the most part, make laws. For men, abortion can be a political, philosophical and abstract question because it is never a decision they will have to make personally. When men and women discuss abortion--as I know from long experience--the discussion is invariably on two completely different levels: men, even men who are in favor of abortion, will treat it intellectually, even academically...
Neizvestny's monument, which will be formally unveiled this week on the third anniversary of Khrushchev's death, is symbolically strong, a massive (9 ft. high, 5 ft. wide) abstract of white marble and black granite with a bronze bust of Khrushchev in the center. The white and black blocks, says Neizvestny, represent the bright and dark periods of Khrushchev's career, as well as the bright and dark periods of Soviet life...
...competition that pervades Harvard life, but it's easy to see why it goes on and why students accept it. When people come here, they've probably already fallen into the habit of drawing their self-esteem through their achievements and not anything more abstract. So at Harvard, an achievement-oriented place, people stay within their old patterns of self-identification. Harvard is the kind of place where you can feel more like a person if you're in Social Studies, say, than...
Personal revenge is still an acceptable motivation in an action movie. But Bronson is not looking for his wife's murderers, though they are so manifestly weird that any reader of Dick Tracy would have a fair chance of finding them. No, he has become an abstract symbol of quick justice in a setting where every bit player is careful to complain that the courts are too slow, the cops too dumb. Moreover, he quickly becomes a pop-cult hero, photographed against magazine posters acclaiming the salutary effect his work is having on the crime rate. Even the police...
Passim's, besides serving coffee and good music, is showing "I Ching" watercolors by Martha Jane Mount. Mount works with a very wet brush loaded with strong colors, which she allows to spread and pool in seemingly random patterns. The lush atmospheric effects and abstract patterns Mount creates, many suggestive of land or seascapes, really need a larger format than she gives them in these small paintings. Perhaps the best watercolors are the few in which she uses a dryer brush and allows the color and texture of her paper to play a more forceful role in the designs...