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...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...
Garrison Keillor's new novel, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, will be published later this month by Viking
...introducing Keillor, Professor of Comparative Religion Diana L. Eck referred jokingly to the phrase Keillor uses on his radio variety show “A Prairie Home Companion” to describe the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minn...
Every week on his show Keillor tells a story about Lake Wobegon, where he says “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average...
...List Groups, at the Harvard Mansfield attended in the early 1950s, the average grade was probably above B-. For C to have been the average grade during his undergraduate years, Mansfield’s Harvard would have to have been not just a Garden of Eden, but a Lake Wobegon, where almost everyone was above average...