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...RSTA program was founded to change the scope and purpose of vocational education, which in the past, according to program director Larry Rosenstock, has been considered an alternative for academic underachievers...
...course, the risk that the outburst of versifying will merely inundate the country with bad poetry that plays better onstage than on the page. But optimists argue that any interest will inevitably translate into greater respect for the truly gifted. "People prize the spoken word," says S.X. Rosenstock, vice president of Poetry Society of America, West. "Whether it's Beat poetry or Dante, they want to hear it. Speaking any poem is a statement of your freedom...
...find its own level. It is now doing so. The time for a complete Wilmarth retrospective has not arrived, but the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan has mounted a small exhibition of 25 of his sculptures (through Aug. 20), sensitively curated with an excellent catalog essay by Laura Rosenstock. Even from this limited evidence, it is clear that Wilmarth was by far the best American sculptor of his generation...
...images that spoke of frustration, tension and ritualized memory, he had no equal. No wonder the surrealists adored his early work and adopted its strategies wholesale. The "illusionist" painters among them, Dali, Ernst, Tanguy and Magritte, all came out of early De Chirico, a lineage astutely discussed by Laura Rosenstock in the catalogue; and as another contributor, Wieland Schmied, points out, German painters in the '20s like George Grosz used Chirican motifs to express their vision of an estranged urban world in social dislocation...
Holiest of Days. Then, while doing postgraduate work in jurisprudence at Leipzig, Rosenzweig met a converted Jew, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who had abandoned his Judaism for Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed...