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...BERENSTAIN, 82, co-author and co-illustrator, with his wife Jan, of the best-selling Berenstain Bears children's books, which chronicle the everyday travails of a family of bears; in Bucks County, Pa. The couple, who met in art school, submitted a manuscript to then Random House editor Theodor Geisel--better known as Dr. Seuss--and The Big Honey Hunt, published in 1962, became the first of some 250 books in a series that has since sold nearly 300 million copies. The bears generated some criticism for stereotypical roles--Mama Bear tends to the cubs, for example, and Papa...
Glauber shares the prize with fellow American John L. Hall and German physicist Theodor W. Hänsch and will receive half of the $1.29 million prize...
...scholars working on post-1945 art today, Buchloh is perhaps the only one for whom the question, raised by Theodor Adorno in the field of literature, about the possibility of art (and criticism) after the catastrophic trauma of World War II has remained absolutely central,” Yve-Alain Bois, the former chair of the history of art and architecture department, wrote in a note to Franklin D. Rosenblatt...
Proceeding from there to an even broader indictment, the crits have borrowed from philosophical realms outside legal thought, including structuralism, semiotics and the "Frankfurt school" of such neo-Marxist theorists as Jrgen Habermas and Theodor Adorno. They propose that law is no more than a means by which unjust power relations are dressed in the costume of eternal truths. Some of the C.L.S. adherents, like Kennedy, also flaunt a confrontational '60s style of incivility and antic provocation in relations with their colleagues. But at bottom, he is deadly serious. "The legalization of the rules," Kennedy inveighs, "the presentation...
...Geisel's centenary - the Seussentennial, his publishers call it - is being celebrated with a U.S. postage stamp in his honor, a cross-country caravan of books and playlets and (my favorite) Charles D. Cohen's "The Seuss the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel." It's a trove of Seussiana, with special attention to Geisel's formative years in college and in the Manhattan magazine and advertising business. Indeed, Cohen seems to have run out of steam, space or interest when it came to Geisel's mature work in books and film...