Word: stract
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Freemasonry, an Anglo-Saxon creation first transplanted to Florence in 1733, was soon under attack by the Catholic Church. The Masonic principles of nonsectarianism and ab stract belief in a "Great Architect of the Universe" were viewed as an intolerable threat by Pope Clement XII, who issued the first papal edict that ordered excommunication of any Catholics who became Masons. Masons were often regarded as subversive political freethinkers by the Italian principalities. By the mid-19th century, in fact, many of the most prominent nationalist leaders of the Italian risorgimento were Masons. Among them: Giuseppe Mazzini and the notoriously antipapal...
...Saigon prostitute, blinking and cooing like a neon China doll, whispers rote nothings into our hero's ear; he thinks she's talking politics. A combat photographer boasts of the limbs he has lost in action and lures the reporter into the fray. "These flights are ab-stract!" he exults as the bomber tails into its fatal dive...
...need time to learn and reflect." As newsmen swarmed over Jean's fam ily farm, his mother grumbled at him: "We haven't had a moment's peace." Jean has already learned the art of evading re porters ("I really haven't seen enough ab stract paintings to have an opinion...
...ideal training," he says, "would combine the kind of technical skill you learn at the Boston Museum School [how to paint what you see] with the more ab stract approach [painting as a language of its own] that Black Mountain provides...