Word: abstractions
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...that you can enjoy a Laurel and Hardy film in the same room as a delightful Picasso sculpture of a girl skipping rope (under the subtheme "childhood"). Or a Bauhaus-inspired Marcel Breuer dining-room set in front of the energetic Wassily Kandinsky painting Auf Weiss II (1923)?subtheme: "abstract city." You can hear the Music of Changes by experimental composer John Cage in the space dedicated to "random...
...have to make my bed?' It's proof of their cognitive maturity, and it's all good." Sadly, this cognitive development isn't well supported by the middle school curriculum either, according to several studies. "It doesn't help students see the bigger picture or to understand abstract concepts," says Juvonen...
...potential Judas. In sermons pitched to middle schoolers, the analogies are pushed even further. Original sin, says Dietz, is like being born on the Titanic with Jesus as your only lifeboat. With adolescence comes new cognitive tools to explore those ancient ideas. "Along with the ability to understand abstract concepts, their sense of empathy is expanding," says Dr. Mary Lynn Dell, who is an adolescent psychiatrist at Emory University and an Episcopal priest. "In religious terms, this gives them the ability to discern between institutional religion and an internal relationship with God." For the first time, adolescents are able...
...DIED. AL HELD, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said: "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity . . . But we can find a way to live with them...
...down to decide on some of the nation's most sensitive, sometimes most divisive issues. No reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. THE JUSTICES ARE LEFT ALONE TO ARGUE THE LAW, THEIR PRINCIPLES, THEIR CONSCIENCES. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like 'liberty' and 'equality' must be applied to urgent social and moral dilemmas?abortion, the death penalty, obscenity, busing, reverse discrimination. The conferences provide a relentless test of conviction and reason; shallowness and bluffing are not long concealed. 'It is like being naked in a steam...