Word: abstractly
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...Warsaw since 1937, he "believed in the war." Believed, that is, in halting the genocide he knew was taking place. But his book is not about that; it is about an 18-year-old kid's chilling terror and loneliness in combat and how that drove more abstract ideals out of his mind. "You got through because you didn't want to look bad to the guys around you," says Kotlowitz...
...real historical figure, Dorie Miller, for us to root for. Miller was a cook who, though untrained, manned a gun and may have shot down one or two Japanese planes. But his character is merely sketched into the narrative, and the entire assault on Pearl has a curiously abstract air about it. The bodies fly spectacularly when the Arizona is hit, but we don't know, thus care about, the victims...
...have known about the condition for centuries. History, in fact, teems with brilliant synesthetes--including such luminaries as novelist Vladimir Nabokov, composer Franz Liszt and physicist Richard Feynman. Synesthesia enjoyed a certain spiritual currency in the late 19th century, especially among the European avant-garde. Many artists, most notably abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky, were famed for their synesthetic pretensions. "I saw all my colors," wrote Kandinsky, recalling his experience of a Wagner opera. "Wild lines verging on the insane formed drawings before my very eyes...
...just spontaneously play, and whatever happens happens. Ryan writes all the lyrics, and it’s something I really admire him for, because it’s tough to write lyrics that don’t end up sounding cheesy or trite yet aren’t so abstract and can still mean something to people...
...described as such an artist. A Boston native and Professor of Fine Arts at Boston University for 20 years, Ablow has, for much of his career, devoted himself to the still life, finding in simple objects—the bowl, the cloth, the tableboth—the abstract and the specific. Ablow’s show of “Recent Paintings” at the Pucker Gallery in Boston is a testament both to his innovation and his artistic stamina...