Word: abstractly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five by eleven, painted only in shades of black and white, the picture has been considered by many critics to be typical of Picasso's so-called "abstract...
...mystical Tory." If you are not a materialist, you must be an idealist. "Ours is a scientific world, a literate world, saturated with -I will not say, the precise ideas of the three materialists-but surely with their deeper spirit, their faith in matter, their love of system, their abstract scientism, and their one-sided interpretation of Nature." How directly their theoretical ideas have found current practical expression, Author Barzun highlights by bracketing two quotations...
...Abstract, Glittering...
...tired of abstract terms and glittering generalities...
...back to their city--is a natural for Student Union parallel-parable making, but even the most ardent Bundle for Britain will hardly object to swallowing this socially-significant pill, sugar-coated as it is with distinctively modern music by Leonard Bernstein, clever lyrics by William Abrahams, a colorful abstract set by Howard Turner and John Holabird, and a cast that is not merely capable but alive. And all of these elements have been brought together skillfully and with a refreshing lack of pretension by director Robert Nichols...