Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Modern Language Association of America awarded its seventh annual Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Bernbaum Professor of Literature Dorrit Cohn last week...
...sense for the murals, which is partly a basis for problems that occurred later. I don't think that either side, Rothko or Harvard, had a full understanding of what to do with the murals. There was subliminal misunderstanding all around, but it was pretty subliminal," relates Marjorie B. Cohn, Curator of Prints, who was present to see the murals installed in early 1960s...
...Cohn adds "I think it would be very limiting to interpret those murals as Rothko's depiction of the Passion. I never got the sense that that was his limit on their significance and I never got the sense that he wanted to put into words their explicit significance." After all, Rothko himself later pointed out that the murals' crimson backgrounds refer to the "spirit of Harvard," and the subject matter of the murals is a series of H's, contracting and expanding in rhythmic progression...
...Which leads us back to the present: Standing in front of Panel #2, the only uncovered, respiring portion of the series, the other four hang frozen beside and behind it, shourded in plastic. Panel #2's current blue hues look somewhat dolorous. But Ms. Cohn offers assurance "that the ensemble as a whole still works" even if some unity is lost with the fading. "They still have the solemn resonance that Rothko wanted. A very inspiring ensemble still. Yes, they are damaged, but no, they are not wrecked...
...that they have and lawmakers have hopped on board (barring last-minute bickering), not everyone is happy. "This is horrible legislation," says bank analyst Lawrence Cohn at Ryan, Beck & Co. "It creates a huge potential obligation for U.S. taxpayers." How's that? Cohn says the new bill will encourage concentration of financial power in a few hands, any one of which could topple the system if it failed--forcing a government bailout. He has strong support from the likes of consumer activist Ralph Nader...