Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For a man seemingly addicted to surprise, Sadat has a talent for patience. He waited for the 1976 U.S. presidential election, and then Carter's inauguration. Meanwhile, the savage Lebanese civil war split the Arab world into quarreling camps and reduced all peace talk once more to diplomatic abstraction.
Teachers are capable of doublespeak too. During last week's award ceremony, a spokesman for the award committee was asked to define doublespeak. "It's an umbrella term," he replied after an awkward silence, "a high-level abstraction to describe pernicious use of language." At least he winced...
Konrád's second novel again deals with a civil servant, an unnamed city planner for a provincial town in an unspecified Eastern European country. However, this time the clients are not bizarre, ruined people but buildings, factories and streets. The abstraction of architecture casts a chill over...
The exhibits vary as widely in materials and forms as they do in age. There are model pottery cottages and figurines that date from the Bronze Age--heavy, clumsy clay and copper vessels. And then there are enchanting works like a bronze stag only 16cm. high, that dates from around...
And what about the blacks in all this? Although the arguments are about them, they are sometimes almost overlooked as people. Blacks in South Africa have two different incarnations. First there are the blacks on the streets, in the shops, in the factories. Locked into their own form of narrow...