Word: abstractly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...taste of economic theory at Harvard. Nobody has yet gained a clearer judgment of New Deal Economics from the graphs and curves and trends of Ec A or 1. The reason is that economic theory, when isolated from the forces that condition it, remains litle more than abstract quibbling for its own sake. The Harvard Department's "vacuum" approach to theory is, at best, a mental discipline, and as such much inferior to mathematics...
...daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design toured the Loop enthusiastically wailing plugs for Art Week. On nearby sidewalks pretty models paraded with paintings stuck to them like sandwich boards. In Rochester the art show in the Civic Exhibits Building vied for honors with a poultry show where a human crowing contest was in progress, hired an orchestra...
...sane note was struck by followers of Mrs. Frank Granger Logan's Chicago Society for Sanity in Art: Loganite Painter Oscar Scharer hung, as the All-Illinois Art Society's "picture of the week," a painting of a horse laughing at a gallery wall of surrealist and abstract pictures...
...Western Front he wrote his wife: "Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict and feeling and such ugliness that instinctively, from inner necessity, my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Shortly afterward, under the guns of Verdun, Franz Marc was killed. Last week U. S. gallerygoers found his soft, poetically gloomy animal scenes a welcome diversion from the hullabaloo of World...
Earnest, unaffected Midwesterner Smith briefly visited two U. S. universities (Ohio, Washington), studied art at Manhattan's Art Students' League, last spring gave a show of abstract sculpture which he forged of iron (TIME, April 22). The inspiration for his medallions came from coins and cylinder seals which he saw in Greece. To convey the classic feeling, he put his initials and inscriptions in Greek letter on some of the medals-but in "Coffee Pot Greek," like a word inscribed on War Exempt Sons of the Rich which spells out "soft cookies." Sculptor Smith calls himself a humanitarian...