Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critic said that Aleksandrov's "weakness for abstract and vague formulations brings him to the point where correct Marxist theses are drowning in them, and the revolutionary content of Marxism is sometimes replaced by abstract discussions...
...perfect focus, but there are definite limitations. Only half a dozen characters are seen, representing very little of society, though a good range of neuroticism. But the chief merit of the book lies in the fact that Sartre has put his story ahead of his theme, and whatever abstract ideas of Existentialism he has expressed, he has converted them into the concrete form of dramatic situation. Perhaps a lot can be learned about the new French philosophy from the novel, but what is more important, the book will stand on its own artistic legs...
...dozen living painters. The New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride-a longtime Miro enthusiast-last week said that Miro now "occupies the position of favorite with those-connoisseurs who insist that they really are connoisseurs." But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent...
Anyone but the incorrigibly stuffy would certainly find Miro a delight to the eye, even if some would shy at calling his work great. Miro himself, who should know, does not consider his art abstract, as the critics think. "As a matter of fact," he insists, "I am attaching more and more importance to the subject matter of my work. To me it seems vital that a rich and robust theme should be present to give the spectator an immediate blow between the eyes...
...Schwarzschild's biographical facts are true, as far as they go. But the Marx he presents is a man with his brain cut out. Hence the facts add up to a caricature. Schwarzschild's thesis is that Karl Marx was 1) a rabbinical thinker whose pyramids of abstract logic were brilliant, but had nothing to do with facts; 2) a vicious egomaniac determined to ruin any man or group that he could not dominate; 3) a political seer whose prognostications were almost always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology...