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...mind a stabilization of linear prose, a bit of the architecture of thought. First one sentence, then another, building paragraphs, whole pages, chapters, books, until eventually something like an attention span returns and perhaps a steadier regard for cause and effect. War (and television) shatters. Reading, thought reconstruct. The mind in reading is active, not passive-depressive...
These questions, and others, are now raised and answered by an altogether fascinating reconstruction of "Entartete Kunst," which opened last week at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant- Garde in Nazi Germany" is the result of five years of patient detective work led by art historian Stephanie Barron, whose specialty is the art and cultural politics of Germany in the '20s and '30s. With the help of photographs that had lain unconsulted since the end of World War II in the archives of the National Gallery in Berlin, Barron was able...
...supposed to write an opinion piece for today. Instead, the Social Studies concentrator selfishly chose to work on his thesis. As he ran out of the Crimson building towards Widener--mumbling something about "not graduating"--a stack of papers fell out of his bag. We were able to reconstruct the following from his notes...
...most ambitious efforts to reconstruct family life is at Logos School, a private academy outside St. Louis that was founded two decades ago for troubled teens. Strict rules governing both school and extracurricular life are laid out for parents in a 158-page manual. Families are required to have dinner together every night, and parents are expected to keep their children out of establishments or events, say local hangouts or rock concerts, where drugs are known to be sold. Parents must also impose punishments when curfews and other rules are broken. Says Lynn, whose daughter Sara enrolled at Logos...
...began to reconstruct the book from memory. Once or twice a month, Lusia would take what I'd written to Moscow and send it on to Efrem and Tanya in the U.S. How she accomplished this is a story that cannot yet be told. By April 1982, I had finished another rough draft. But on Oct. 11, 1982, the entire manuscript -- 500 typewritten pages Lusia had brought back from Moscow and 900 handwritten pages I had recently completed -- was again stolen, this time by what can only be called gangster methods...