Word: abstraction
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...believe that I value my Harvard education because of my hard work in getting here, not because of the abstract thought that it costs my parents a lot of money. Even if we assume that I am a particularly ungrateful individual, would Summers really argue that the Harvard students to whose parents tuition represents a much smaller (if not non-existent) financial burden value their education less? I can readily admit that students who found Harvard admission an easy accomplishment may undervalue its worth, but I cannot believe the same for those students whose parents pay less proportionate to their...
...We’re trying to draw abstract qualities from concrete issues,” she said...
Prolific campus choreographer Ryuji Yamaguchi ’03 is also contributing several scenes of abstract movement and has helped the actors achieve greater ease and control of their stage movement. And, as befits a bloodbath of a play, there will be lots of fake blood, courtesy of blood-designer par excellence Katie Heller...
...more casual working out of visual problems on paper. The pieces displayed are best characterized by an inherent tension. They vibrate with energy and visual force as they reveal the artist’s struggles to eliminate boundaries between drawing and painting, while probing figurative elements for their fundamental abstract forms. They read as transparent entries in the diary of the mind: betraying clearly on the surface the profound influences of artists such as Picasso and Gorky on de Kooning’s development...
DIED. JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE, 78, abstract expressionist whose works hang in New York City's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Gallery; in Ile-aux-Grues, Que. Considered Canada's most important modern painter, he became the first Canadian to win a prize at the Venice Biennale...