“The Most Important Thing”

2020 ◽  
pp. 158-175
Author(s):  
Robert H. Abzug
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Counseling Practice ◽  
Kurt Goldstein

May returns to New York when recovery is far enough along. He begins a private counseling practice, where he excels in empathy with patients and encourages a gay patient to remain gay if that is what he chooses to be. He also writes a doctoral dissertation on anxiety and begins again an analysis with Erich Fromm at the White Institute, where he also consults with Clara Thompson. In addition to Kierkegaard, Fromm’s work as well as that of Kurt Goldstein influenced the dissertation. He quickly publishes it in 1950 as The Meaning of Anxiety, a book notable for its comprehensiveness, its link of creativity with anxiety, and for May its lack of religious content. May’s father dies just before he publishes The Meaning of Anxiety and almost instantly becomes a major force in the emerging profession of psychotherapy.

Running to Touch the Horizon

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 261-263
Author(s):  
Ryszard Cieslak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
New York University ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Complete Control ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Experimental Theatre ◽  
The Moment

At the moment, you're working with young actors teaching a course in experimental theatre at New York University. What are you trying to teach them?How to be true in performance, that above all. I struggle to plant in them the principle that Grotowski handed on to me: we act so much in our daily lives that to make theatre what we need to do is to stop acting. Another very important thing to understand is that an actor must concentrate on his own body. The actor's instrument is not his voice or his diction, it's his whole body. Theatre can be a combination of all the arts – music, dance, painting, writing – but above all it is moving visual art. So long as an actor has elementary problems with his body, he is limited. So just as a musician has to exercise his fingers every day, so an actor has to exercise his body almost to the point of overcoming it, that is, being in complete control of it.

Fred Schwartz

2019 ◽  
pp. 548-548
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kuncewicz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Communal Property ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
Family House

FRED SCHWARTZ, founder of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, was an inspiring entrepreneur and philanthropist who dedicated his life to preserving the memory of Holocaust victims and preventing future genocides. He died in New York at the age of 85. After a moving visit to Oświęcim in 1991, Schwartz established the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation in 1995. In 1998, after years of dialogue with the Polish government and the Polish Jewish community, the Hevrah Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue was the first Jewish communal property returned to the Jewish community under a law passed by the Polish Parliament. The Jewish community of Bielsko-Biala, which reclaimed the synagogue, in turn donated it to the foundation which renovated and opened it and the adjacent Kornreich family house as the Auschwitz Jewish Center in 2000. A pioneer of Polish-Jewish reconciliation and the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland, Schwartz created several related non-profit organizations. Of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, he once said: 'The most important thing is it’s an expression of life, it is vitality, the fact that ashes can rise up and really be re-formed as life again.'...

John H. McWhorter, Towards a new model of creole genesis. (Studies in ethnolinguistics, 3.) New York: Lang, 1997. Pp. xiii, 199. Hb $44.95.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-287
Author(s):  
Donald Winford
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Structural Form ◽  
Systematic Account ◽  
Serial Verb Constructions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Verb Constructions ◽  
Serial Verb ◽  
Alternative Theories

This is an informative and quite stimulating book, which offers a detailed look at the nature of creole genesis with particular emphasis on the emergence of Saramaccan (SM), one of the maroon creoles spoken in Suriname. McWhorter describes himself in the preface as a member of the third generation of creolists – a generation not afraid to challenge the conventional wisdom in the field, or to offer alternative theories. This book has the rather ambitious aim of proposing a “systematic account of creolization which integrates a number of the processes which creolists have identified as contributing the structural form of these languages” (10). In pursuing it, McWhorter re-examines two key areas of SM syntax – serial verb constructions and the copula system – to support his own eclectic view of creole formation. Despite the date of publication, the book is essentially the same as McWhorter's doctoral dissertation, completed in 1993. Hence it is somewhat dated, and omits mention of much recent and current work on creole genesis.

Artists for the Reich: Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany. By Joan L. Clinefelter. Oxford and New York: Berg. 2005. Pp. x+182. $74.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN 1-84520-200-7.

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-322
Author(s):  
Charles E. McClelland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Book Title ◽  
Diminishing Returns ◽  
German Art ◽  
The Law

The law of diminishing returns can arguably be applied to historical research as well as larger economic enterprises. What had previously been described in a few paragraphs and notes of such standard works as those by Paul O. Rave and Hildegard Brenner has now been brought to the light of day in a full monographic treatment of Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder and the Deutsche Kunstgesellschaft (German Art Society). For those attracted by the majestic sweep of Joan Clinefelter's book title, however, a more accurate (if still overstated) description is found in the title of her 1995 Indiana University doctoral dissertation, “The German Art Society and the Battle for ‘Pure German’ Art, 1920–1945.”

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