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...York City in the past few years should be by a dead artist who was dismissed by the modernist establishment when he was alive. (Oh, well, what else is new? Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?) He was John Koch. His work is at the New York Historical Society. As it should be, for it is intimately part of the history of Manhattan, as, say, Jackson Pollock...
...1960s, the New York art world was a little like Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average. Everyone was a radical, except an enlightened few. Koch was not, not at all. Born in 1909, he was self-taught, spent all his life in New York (except for a period of study in Paris) and died in 1978. There were quite a few reasons for well-thinking folk of a conventionally radical disposition not to take him seriously. One: he was a figurative painter. Two: he and his wife Dora Zaslavsky, a noted piano coach, were reasonably well...
...unreachable. Bloomberg is about to discover how hard it is to satisfy the city's right and left, its business elite and minority leaders, its diverse interest groups with wildly competing claims that can never be fully reconciled, especially at a time of deep crisis. Says former Mayor Ed Koch, who campaigned for Bloomberg: "It's the greatest challenge that any mayor has ever had." Giuliani never tried to please everyone, but Bloomberg wants to be liked, and in New York that can be trouble...
...Nancy Shapiro, who heads Teachers & Writers, a program that sends writers into New York City public schools and publishes books about teaching writing. "Writing exercises help the child focus on the writing task and let the feelings and ideas flow." Shapiro suggests, for example, an exercise based on Kenneth Koch's book Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry. Have kids start a poem that begins "I used to/but now." The very act of writing may help children formulate some of their questions and give them a feeling that they have an outlet for their fears...
...stentorian "Abraham Lincoln" was followed by Schnitzler?s sad-gay "The Affairs of Anatol"; a jaunty Holmes-Moriarty saga gave way to "Hell on Ice," a docudrama of a disastrous North Pole expedition, and one of the most adroitly harrowing hours you could shiver through. Houseman, Welles and Howard Koch, who was hired as the main writer with "Hell on Ice," took full advantage of the mind-theater medium. Houseman: "We invented all sorts of ingenious and dramatic devices: diaries, letters, streams of consciousness, confessions and playbacks of recorded conversations." The result was not clutter but a narrative density that...