Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing. Chief among them were the 64,000 subscribers, who gave Forum top ranking in its field. This week, Forum got a new lease on life. Beginning next April, announced the American Planning and Civic Association, it will resume publication of architecture's most influential U.S. journal...
...during the year unless you have vast chunks of time to spend fiddling with apparatus." Bloch originates the main line of an experiment and then instructs a co-worker to carry it out. Once the results of many such experiments are available Bloch reports the findings in a professional journal...
...THIEF'S JOURNAL by Jean Genet. 268 pages. Grove...
...Jean-Paul Sartre who canonized Jean Genet. But it was Genet himself-sodomist, petty criminal, playwright (The Blacks)-who thought up the notion that purified evil could be a kind of sainthood. His self-nomination is announced and ritually celebrated in The Thief's Journal, written in the '40s, which is just now translated and published in the U.S. By his own lights, Genet is indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops...
...journal covers the years from 1932 to 1940 when Genet, a lazy young homosexual, ran with pimps, thieves and Foreign Legion deserters (Genet had been a legionnaire long enough to collect the enlistment money). It is a confession, but not the kind in which remorse is pretended. Genet's self-revelation is mischievous, unrepentant, and not to be trusted. Genet strokes his central paradox-that total degradation can produce spiritual exaltation-as if it were a pet cat. Speaking of his beggar's lice, he says: "Having become -as useful for the knowledge of our decline as jewels...