Records of the New York Institute for the Humanities 1971-1995, (bulk 1980-1984).

Borges, Jorge Luís, 1899-1986

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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was a distinguished Argentinian poet, essayist and short story writer. From the description of La lotería en Babilonia : holograph, undated. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 320956282 From the guide to the La lotería en Babilonia : holograph, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Argentine author. From the description of Antología de la Poesía Argentina Moderna [manuscrip...

Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-2014

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Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa in 1923. At age 13 she began her writing career, her first writings appearing in the children's section of the Johannesburg Sunday Express. Since then she has written novels and countless short stories, articles, etc. which have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. Many of her works reflect the political and social dilemmas of living under apartheid in South Africa and consequently, several of her books have been banned in that ...

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

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An American violinist, Yehudi Menuhin was engaged in 1947 by Two Continent Pictures to appear and play in a projected moving picture named Delirium and an associated short movie; and later for a series of short films. He suggested changes in the script and performed the Mendelssohn Concerto for Delirium, but the picture apparently was not completed, nor were the short films although 22 reels were recorded and photographed. From the description of Letters and other papers relating to ...

Calvino, Italo, 1923-1985

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Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. Italo Calvino is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pes...

Huxtable, Ada Louise, 1921-2013

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Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) for architectural criticism, said in 1996: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a p...

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

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Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909 - July 16, 1995) was an English poet and novelist who worked with the themes of social injustice and class struggle. Spender was born in London and educated at University College, Oxford. He was mentored by W. H. Auden with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. He edited Horizon with Cyril Connolly from 1939-1941. Following WW II, Spender devoted his time to criticism, co-editing the magazine Encounter from 1953-1966. Spender also held a number ...

Geertz, Clifford, 1926-2006

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Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. ...

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

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American author and intellectual. From the description of Authors take sides on Vietnam : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], 1968 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870148 Susan Sontag was an influential and controversial American writer, director, and political activist. She was born in New York city on January 16, 1933, raised in Tucson and Los Angeles. In 1949 she graduated from North Hollywood High School and began her undergraduate work at the University of C...

Glass, Philip

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Composer. From the description of Autograph sheet signed : [New York], 1985 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270911568 American composer. From the description of Intro to Nite Train. [1976?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270563906 From the description of Dance No. 3 / Philip Glass. 1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270563904 ...

Sieburth, Richard.

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Sacks, Oliver W.

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Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x000300 ...

Dorsen, Norman

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Professor Dorsen graduated from Columbia University in 1950 and the Harvard Law School in 1953, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review (1951-1953). Then, as First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he served as an Assistant to the General Counsel of Secretary of the Army (1953-1955); in this capacity he assisted Army attorney Joseph Welch throughout the 1954 Army McCarthy Hearings. Following a Fulbright grant to the London School of Economics (1955 1956), he served as a law cler...

Nochlin, Linda.

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Linda Nochlin (1931-) is a professor of art history in New York, N.Y. James McElhinney (1952-) is an artist, writer and educator in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Linda Nochlin, 2010 Jun. 9-30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 669913427 ...

Baritz, Loren, 1928-....

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Reich, Steve, 1936-....

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Kamm, F.M. (Frances Myrna)

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Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-

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Epithet: Knight; writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x00027f ...

Safdie, Moshe, 1938-....

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Wahl, Nicholas

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Nicholas Wahl (1928-1996) was an expert on French government and politics, with a special interest in Charles de Gaulle. After teaching at Harvard and Princeton, he came to NYU to found the Institute of French Studies (IFS). He had a distinguished academic career, and personal and political connections with French politicians such as De Gaulle and Michel Debré. From the description of Nicholas Wahl papers, 1944-1995. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476070349 ...

Fitzgerald, Frances (1940- ).

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American journalist, author, and visiting professor at various universities. From the description of Frances FitzGerald collection, 1968-2000. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70963173 ...

Turkel, Gerald

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Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990

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Moravia was an Italian writer also known by the pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle. From the description of Vita di Moravia: conversations with Alain Elkann, [ca. 1990]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612223071 ...

Voinovich, Vladimir 1932-

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Turner, Richard, 1932-

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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984

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Sawhill, John C., 1936-

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Gitlin, Todd.

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Rieff, David

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Schorske, Carl E.

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Ward, Eileen

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Hampshire, Stuart, 1914-2004

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Bender, Thomas R.

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Urban historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Harry Bender : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721157 ...

Rubert de Ventos, Xavier

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White, Edmund, 1940-....

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Sass, Louis Arnorsson

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Sennett, Richard, 1943-....

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Orlov, Yuri, 1924-

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Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000

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Snitow, Ann Barr, 1943-

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Collection includes teaching files, subject files, materials documenting Snitow's involvement in various groups and organizations, feminist publications in Eastern European languages, and her writings. From the description of Ann Barr Snitow papers, 1969-2011. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 774687627 Ann Barr Snitow is a feminist activist, writer, and professor of literature and gender studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. ...

Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996

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Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky (Joseph Brodsky) (1940-1996), a Russian poet, was born May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) to Jewish parents. He left school at the age of fifteen to study independently, teaching himself English and Polish. In 1964 he was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "social parasitism" and sentenced to five years of hard labor on a state farm near the Arctic Circle. He was released after serving less than two years of his sentence, but in 1972 he...

Habermas, Jürgen.

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Wittig, Monique

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Sassen, Saskia.

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Varnedoe, Kirk, 1946-2003

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Critic and curator Kirk Varnedoe was educated at Williams College and Stanford University. From 1974 to 1988 he taught at Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, while also curating exhibitions on Scandinavian painting, Gustave Caillebotte, Vienna 1900, and Primitivism in Modern Art. From 1988 to 2002 he was the curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. From the description of Kirk Varnedoe papers, 1890-2006 (bulk 1970-2003) (Getty Research ...

Neier, Aryeh, 1937-....

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Milosz, Czesław.

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Poirier, Richard.

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Correspondence and writings of American professor, editor, and scholar of literature and popular culture, Richard Poirier. From the description of Richard Poirier Collection, 1945-2007 [Bulk Dates: 1986-2007]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733728372 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Richard Poirier, an American literary and cultural critic, professor of literature, and founder of Raritan: A Quarterly Review, was born September 9, 1925 in Gloucester Massachusetts. Poirier serve...

Kos, Danilo 1935-1989.

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