Word: abstractionism
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In Strasbourg, France, a schoolmaster, one Bernard Joerg, lived with his dog. Last week the two went for a walk. Lost in abstraction, M. Joerg started to cross a railroad track; a train leaped out of the twilight, sprang at his shoulder like a huge beast, spun him around through...
The Court upheld his conviction. Said Justice Sanford for the majority of the Court: "It [Gitlow's article] advocates and urges in fervent language mass action which shall progressively foment industrial disturbances . . . and overthrow and destroy organized parliamentary Government. . . . This is not the language of philosophical abstraction. ... It is the...
Great numbers of medicos, some wearing the conventional air of sympathetic abstraction and, on their chins, the familiar bedside Vandyke, but a surprising number of them clean-shaven, brisk, straightforward men of business, convened, last week, in Chicago, at the annual Congress on Medical Education. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President...
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee-they are blue.* Last week, they exhibited in the Daniel Gallery, Manhattan. Thither went some who were informed, some who were curious. "Why," asked the latter, "are they blue? Why do they call their pictures, Dynamism, Abstraction, Mystic, Musical, Choral, Life, Silence?" "To have names," wearily...
Scarcely satisfied, the curious turned to see what answer the fingers of Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee had written on the walls. They saw a picture which, so it seemed to them, could be nothing but a pathologist's graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of...