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Sky Watch; Paying Homage to an American Astronomer
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When about 2,000 astronomers begin assembling here today for the
191st meeting of the American Astronomical Society, one U.S. Naval
Observatory astronomer's work will not be forgotten.
LeRoy E. Doggett, who died at age 54, April 16, 1996, worked
hard to keep our calendars precise and the astronomical and nautical
almanacs packed with accurate information. His career in astronomy
will be surveyed this afternoon at the AAS's LeRoy Doggett Memorial
Session, where many of his colleagues will pay homage to him.
"We were really affected and had a profound sadness by his
passing. We wanted to ...
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Theodor W. Adorno: portrait of a Marxist mandarin.
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly
; ...anniversary of the birth of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). One of...innermost structure ... Theodor Adorno [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...In a pun that plays on Adorno's real name, Wiesengrund, the Hungarian philosopher...
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Men in dark times.(Adorno: A Political Biography)(The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, vol. 3)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...and work have elicited increasing interest. Adorno and Marcuse were linked by their role in what...German-Jewish middle class--including Adorno, who was born Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, the son of a successful Jewish wine merchant...
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Alongside adorno
Magazine article from: Musical Times
; THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO's influence on anglophone musicology...with the continental picture, in which Adorno's importance as a leading figure within...musicology's recent surge of interest in Adorno seems to have sprung at least partly...
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Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style. By...this again in his new book about Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno's writings on Ludwig van Beethoven...problem with books written about Adorno (I know it myself): there is...
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Late Marxism: Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Dialectic.
Magazine article from: The Nation
; LATE MARXISM: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic...sophisticated and searching study of Theodor Adorno to appear in English. Until recently...to Adorno, for "meadowland" is Wiesengrund, Adorno's middle name. With Herbert Marcuse...
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The consolations of German philosophy Daniel Johnson on studies of two philosophers who helped shape modern Germany and the way Germans feel about the war
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...ultimately from his philosophy. Among Adorno's disciples was Jurgen Habermas...Federal Republic. The Marxist Adorno, who had spent the war in exile...Even his name had changed: Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno had become "Teddie" W. Adorno...
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Vivir la experiencia del arte.(El Angel)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México)
; ...Fuentes Centenario. Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) Probablemente...dirigentes supremos", dice Adorno. Por ello, si el arte es un...reafirman con claridad lo que Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno previera medio siglo antes...
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The Arts: Bach: the invention of a musical god As the musical world marks the 250th anniversary of the death of JS Bach, Bayan Northcott surveys the history of his extraordinary fame
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...bicentenary of Bach's death in 1950, and one admirer, that awesomely socio-philosophical hyper-dialectician, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, could take no more. The following year he brought out a densely argued polemic entitled "Bach Defended Against...
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SCHMOOZE SNOOZE
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...CONVERSATION: BENJAMIN, ADORNO, SCHOLEM, SCHNBERG...thinkers-Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and...he notes that Teddy Wiesengrund "sanitized" his name...becoming "Theodore Adorno." In their conversation...
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