Word: abstractly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that Mozart's music is characteristically "happy"; it is only true that there is something in his refined melodic line, in the "abstract" or "pure" form of his composition, which misleads one in that direction. Listen to the A-major piano concerto; to the first movement with its spacious calm and serenity; to the second, with its almost unberable poignancy, probably the nearest Mozart ever got to out-and-out lyricism; and then finally to the third movement, in the true sense of the word "happy," sparkling with fun and humor. Listen to any Mozart, and you will find...
...under which rich & poor, high & low, would have equal opportunities to prove their worth by serving the totalitarian State. The only "right" accorded impartially to all Frenchmen would be to work. Liberty, Pétain told his countrymen, had not existed in France for 20 years. "Besides, what would abstract liberty be worth in 1940 to an unemployed workman or the proprietor of a small ruined business beyond freedom to suffer without redress in the midst of a vanquished nation...
...problem of radio is primarily one of interpretation." The general public cannot or will not digest abstract social ideas, but can appreciate them only through illustration and in terms of their own experience, Siepmann stated. "In a democracy radio must serve as the interpreter of ideas to the masses...
Casting a "protest" vote does not appeal to many persons. It is mainly for those who consider a certain abstract principle more important than actual effectiveness. For them, Mr. Thomas is the ideal man; he has often shunned some of labor's most effective partisans because of disagreement over abstract questions...
...years between two wars showed in Raemaekers' charcoal stick, if not in his words. Where once he drew blood, desolation, barbed wire, ravished women, a demoniacal Kaiser, he now pictured the forces of the world in abstract, often obvious, images. Churchill was a bluff skipper, Stalin a leering Satan, Hitler a skeleton, the U. S. Isolationist something like a village idiot. A devout Roman Catholic, Raemaekers seemed increasingly preoccupied with the lonely, grave figure of Jesus wandering through the world...