Word: abstractly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them was J. P. Morgan's bank account. Their appetite for idealism was flirtation and puppy love. They were never sure in what they could believe. And yet the class that now departs has developed a faith of its own. It is, perhaps, no longer a religious faith in abstract universals, but it remains a faith in the wisdom of men and in their ability to achieve their own salvation. We no longer fight for preconceived ideals, but we go forth with a conviction that out of this chaos we and our fellow can construct a better world...
...being two-legged animals, may fight for any or all of these reasons. But because they have minds capable of being moved by abstract ideas such as honor, glory, freedom, sympathy, justice and patriotism, men fight also for what they believe to be the right...
...most sensational escapes from the Nazis in World War II has been made by a leading French abstract painter who comes from a long line of French soldiers and whose great-grandfather fought all through the Napoleonic wars. Last week Painter Jean Hélion (who has had 15 one-man shows in the U.S. alone) told as much as he could, without endangering those who helped him, of how he escaped from a Nazi prison camp in Eastern Prussia, crossed some 1,000 miles of Germany, Belgium and Occupied France to Vichy, later sailed...
...Abstract Painter Hélion began to plot his escape. With the aid of a Shell Oil road map he had found, Hélion spent months studying a route to Switzerland. Suddenly he was moved to a camp at Stettin in eastern Germany. There he was made prison interpreter, got himself elected "representative" by the other prisoners. He gained the confidence of the Nazis. Meanwhile he picked up vital facts about the geography of the district. Again he began to plan escape...
...Says Abstract Painter Hélion, once more with wife and three-year-old son in their Virginia home: "Escaping is really all a matter of keeping your nerve, distracting attention at the crucial moment." Of his painting he says: "I have been able to start exactly where I left off, partly because my wife has kept my unfinished pictures on their easels just as they were when I went away...