Word: adler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree of economic autonomy, many women found that marriage bonds that chafed could be snapped more easily than before. Meanwhile, Freud had become a household god, and the composition of the new trinity was the id, the ego and the superego. Armchair analysts lolled under many latitudinarian banners-Jung, Adler, Reich, Stekel, Krafft-Ebing, Sacher-Masoch and even the Marquis de Sade. What all of this generated was an unprecedented inquiry into the nature and needs of women as sexual beings...
...Stock Exchange, however, and all of the "39 Sullivan buildings," with the exception of the Carson Pirie store, were the work of the partnership of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. It was Adler who designed the floating caisson foundations that supported one wall of the Stock Exchange, thereby ending the problem of uneven settlement of buildings. Many of the firm's building designs were due to Adler's engineering expertise. Although I speak with a certain prejudice as Adler's granddaughter, architectural historians agree that much credit given to Sullivan alone belongs to his partner as well...
...actual telethon-Jerry Lewis' 17th annual for muscular dystrophy in 1968-was "the landmark in both our lives," according to Adler, that led to their present exhibit. "We sat up for the entire 19 hours, taking notes," he recalls. "Both of us are fascinated with TV when it is doing real things, as it is during a telethon." Among the other indelible events for Adler and Margolies, they say, were the Pope's 1965 visit to Yankee Stadium and, in 1969, the funeral of President Eisenhower. A couple of years ago, they began photographing images from the screen...
...mirror to a mirror," notes Margolies. Yet their selection and juxtaposition of slides add up to a sardonic view of the TV age and of the current Administration. A still depicting Tricia Nixon's wedding is followed, for example, by the nuptials of Miss Vicki and Tiny Tim. Adler and Margolies are certainly critical of TV's "scoreboard mentality"-their slides cut rapidly from weather statistics to sports results to air-pollution ratings to war casualties. "Was it 41,000 dead last week," Adler asked TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton, "or was that the attendance at the Giants...
Nevertheless, as forerunners-or fore-sitters-of the TV generation, Adler and Margolies are apologists for what they admit are television's "give-them-what-they-want aesthetics." They believe it is TV that makes things real, which may seem like a rather naive electronic version of Bishop Berkeley's metaphysics (a tree must be perceived if it is to exist). "If there is a garbage strike and your own neighborhood is unaffected, there is no garbage strike unless you see it on TV," says Adler. "If Abbie Hoffman never set foot on TV, there would...