Word: abstractionism
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The Stairs. A melancholy play by Rosso di San Secondo, Italian dramatist, does not impress. Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless. The stairs of the title ramble upward through a tenement house. The gossip and the touseled details of life...
Power Appliances. Electrical refrigeration commercializes a device which the British scientist Lord Kelvin built 30 years ago. With a pump he compressed gases; the gases lost heat. He permitted the gases to expand into a chamber; they absorbed heat from neighboring objects. Such objects naturally grew colder with the abstraction...
That was the occasion of Frederic Chopin's first concert. Three years later in Paris, a figure of fashion with white gloves to emphasize his pointed hands, he rode through the Bois de Boulogne in a cabriolet. To late suppers in his rooms, each lady would bring a flower, at...
With all of its mannered excellence the play is not satisfying, no more satisfying than Madame Sorel herself. She has been presented with a modern play, a play in which the action deserts the wings on several occasions for the very stage itself; a circumstance quite out of the classical...
Every May it reappears on professors lips. But after stating in cold blood that they are required to cover the whole course with their final test, the instructors proceed to exhibit the ingenuity with which they are in the habit of rendering the requirement innocuous. Most often they leave the...