Word: strew
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...subject, while forgoing the pretensions of photojournalism. The grass becomes an abstract background on which the boys float, frolicking with a disarming intensity. There is very little visual context in the photograph, but it is this abandonment of documentary principles that makes it so appealing. The spatter and strew of the grasses is absorbing and positively disorienting, a visual compliment to the boys’ joyful ecstasy and a testament to Rockefeller’s artistic acuity.Sadly, the exhibit fizzles before its narrative climax. Here, at the beginning of the war scenes, Rockefeller distances himself physically and psychologically from...
...strew mathematics professors and long-division worksheets in the path of my students and millions of others who only in the past decade have been offered a glimpse of math classrooms in which they can honestly perceive themselves as thinkers, as problem-solvers, and as active participants...