Word: hermann
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...college, the "free university" movement, with its student-designed courses in Hermann Hesse's novels or radical politics, has fizzled out. There is a general sense that everything is back to normal on the nation's campuses -that young people have happily gone back to their books after all the malaise and general hell-raising of the late '60s. But actually the discontent has not disappeared; it has only become less strident. Although there were large increases in the numbers of women and blacks in last fall's freshman classes, the rate of college attendance among...
...HERMANN HESSE HAS in the past few years become the center of a cult, a following consisting mostly of the young and which can respond easily to his simple, mythic-symbolic prose. This is lamentable because Hesse's works, many of which lie on the borderline of acceptability, will not get the careful consideration they deserve in the wake of such superficial faddism. The twenty-three Stories of Five Decades (only three of them previously available in English) will certainly lend some more weight to the arguments both for and against Hesse. And assuming that Ralph Manheim's translation...
...which, under the weird, taxing and sometimes comic tutelage of Don Juan, a young academic labored to penetrate and grasp what he calls the "separate reality" of the sor cerer's world. The learning of enlightenment is a common theme in the favorite reading of young Americans today (example: Hermann Hesse's nov el Siddhartha). The difference is that Castaneda does not present his Don Juan cycle as fiction but as unembellished documentary fact...
Both featured artists, Peter Ackermann and Hermann Waldenburg, were born in Hitler's time and both fill their current work with images of life and renewal amid ruined concrete. Waldenburg's aquatints reach back to the last, best representative of German painting, Paul Klee, with their draftsman-like environments and constant use of plant forms that seemingly grow out of pure geometry. Tilting up in exaggerated perspective, the box-like shapes from which Waldenburg's plants spring combine planes of rough shading to suggest concrete...
BUSCH-REISGINER. Graphic Works by Peter Ackermann and Hermann Waldenburg...