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See the article in its original context from August 28, 1988 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. THE BAR IN THE AUDITORIUM lobby at the University of Antwerp was crowded with scholars in baggy suits, itinerant students, assorted hangers-on. There were also a few prosperous-looking older men, who turned out to be childhood friends of Paul de Man - the focus of an international conference held last June at the university. You wouldn't have known from the sessions listed in the … [Read more...] about The Case of Paul De Man

See the article in its original context from March 14, 1975 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. No Andric, the Yugoslav who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1961 for “The Bridge on the Drina” and other works, died yesterday in a Belgrade hospital at the age of 82. He had suffered a stroke last December. President Tito Issued a statement saying that Mr. Andric's death was “a great loss for our culture and the whole country.” He added that the novelist. poet, short story writer and former … [Read more...] about Ivo Andric, Novelist, Dead; Yugoslav Won Nobel Prize

At the age of 80, with almost 40 books behind him and nearly as many accumulated honors, Harold Bloom has written, in “The Anatomy of Influence,” a kind of summing-up — or, as he puts it in his distinctive idiom, mixing irony with histrionism, “my virtual swan song,” born of his urge “to say in one place most of what I have learned to think about how influence works in imaginative literature.” Influence has long been Bloom’s abiding preoccupation, and the one that established him, in the 1970s, as a radical, even disruptive presence amid the groves of academe. This may surprise some who think of Bloom primarily as a stalwart of the Western canon, fending off the assaults of “the School of Resentment” and its “rabblement of lemmings,” or as a self-confessed Bardolator, swooning over “Hamlet” and “Lear.” Not that Bloom abjures these subsequent selves. There is much canon fodder in this new book, along with re­affirmed vows of fidelity to Shakespeare, “the founder” not only of modern … [Read more...] about Harold Bloom: An Uncommon Reader

In 1979, the artist Ming Smith arrived at New York’s Museum of Modern Art with a portfolio of her photographs. She had been living in the city for a few years, nurturing her obsession with photography, when she heard that the museum had announced an open call for submissions. As Smith walked into the building, prints in tow, the receptionist thought she was a messenger. A few days later, the department of photography’s then chief curator, John Szarkowski, and assistant curator Susan Kismaric bought two of Smith’s pieces, making her the first Black woman photographer to have her works acquired by the museum. Even before gaining institutional recognition, Smith had faith in her art. “I didn’t care if I fit in,” she said to me in her quiet, Midwestern-inflected voice. “Photography was my sacred space.” It was an overcast day in January, and we were sitting in Smith’s home studio, a compact apartment in a tall residential building in central Harlem, surrounded by her work. … [Read more...] about The Ecstatic, Elusive Art of Ming Smith

close Video NY Gov Kathy Hochul on rehiring unvaccinated healthcare workers: COVID-19 'has not gone away' New York Governor Kathy Hochul shared with a reporter that rehiring unvaccinated healthcare workers was not the right answer, despite the vaccination mandates being overturned. Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed affordable housing plan requiring municipalities to build more affordable housing would have a devastating impact on suburban communities throughout the Empire State, especially on Long Island, New York, House Republicans told Fox News Digital. "Not only does this proposal seek to supersede local authority to regulate zoning, but its impact would have disastrous consequence for quality of life on Long Island ," Republican Rep. Andrew Garbarino, who represents New York’s 2nd Congressional District along the south shore of Long Island, told Fox News Digital this week. "Our community simply cannot handle a monumental increase in … [Read more...] about NY Republicans blast Democrat governor’s housing plan as ‘radical’ power grab: ‘Dangerous precedent’

Three weeks ago, I wrote a newsletter about an Indiana urogynecologist who had crowdsourced ideas to redesign his practice from the ground up. I also spoke to other practitioners who are thinking about patients’ experiences at their own offices, and asked what changes you would most like to see. This question clearly touched a nerve; we received hundreds of thoughtful responses. Some were amusing, like the proposal from Adam Herbst of River Edge, N.J. to “ban Kelly and Ryan on the TV in the waiting room.” (Although, in my opinion, the “Live” stars are better than jarring news reports of 10-car pileups.) Others were more poignant and pressing. The most numerous responses, by far, centered around the lack of accommodations for patients with disabilities. Andy Schoenhofer of Toronto, whose wife has multiple sclerosis, wrote: “I’m a caregiving spouse, and I regularly have trouble in doctors’ offices to find room to maneuver her wheelchair. And the exam table is always too high for a … [Read more...] about What Times Readers Would Change About Their Doctors’ Offices