101. Whose Art Is It?
Jane Kramer / Hardcover / Duke University Press / January 1994

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From Booknews
Originally appearing in The New Yorker in December, 1992, this journalistic essay is an account of the furor provoked by white artist John Ahearn's sculptures of residents of New York City's South Bronx. Kramer's article, which prompted charges of racism and stereotyping, explores with sympathy, wit, and circumspection the charged subjects of multiculturalism and political correctness. Lacks index and bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

102. Whose Art Is It?
Jane Kramer,Catharine R. Stimpson (Introduction) / Paperback / Duke University Press / November 1994

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From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly
The tension among artist, art and patron is one of the enduring subjects of modern culture. Whether the patron is pope, millionaire or modern community center, the artist working in an arena not bounded by personal conscience faces vexing questions about the relationship between artist and the larger society. Patrons, too, face vexing questions: Am I buying a commodity for my personal (or community) pleasure, or am I to put up with whatever springs from the artist's imagination? Kramer (Europeans, Unsettling Europe), addresses these issues in an essay about Bronx-based artist John Ahearn that originally appeared in The New Yorker. The artist received a 1991 commission to place three sculptures in front of a local police precinct-house in the nation's poorest congressional district. Kramer thoughtfully tells the complex story of this white artist in a black and Latino community and how that environment informs Ahearn's artistic vision. When that vision runs into strident criticism from African American and Latino residents and bureaucrats, Ahearn decides to dismantle the sculpture. Kramer lets all the relevant voices in this saga speak their piece, emerging with a tale of the conflicts and confusions attendant to the construction of a multicultural society. Illustrations not seen by PW. (Nov.)

103. Willie Randolph:

Brooklyn, the Bronx, Baseball and Beyond
Willie Randolph / Hardcover / HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated / September 1997

104. World's Fair
E. L. Doctorow / Hardcover / Smith Peter / June 1994

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This is a "fictional memoir of life in New York City in the 1930s as observed by a child who recounts his first nine years. Interspersed in Edgar'snarrative are chapters by his mother and his older brother, Donald. . . . Thefamily faces hard times as the father's business fails, Donald leaves home, Edgar's senile grandmother dies, and Edgar is hospitalized with a burst appendix. But the World's Fair (Edgar wins free admission in an 'American Boyhood' essay contest) holds promise for the future; and his experience there offers Edgar the recognition that he's growing up, finding his place in the world." (Libr J)

105. World's Fair

E. L. Doctorow / Paperback / Dutton/Plume / March 1996

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This wonderfully poignant story leads irresistibly to the glittering, futuristic promise of the New York World's Fair of 1939, where the young protaganist at the age of nine crosses over into a future of his own. 7 cassettes.

106. World's Fair (7 Cassettes)

E. L. Doctorow,Read by William Lavelle / Audio / Blackstone Audio / December 1992

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From Edmund White - The Nation
This is a novel in which the brick buildings and the summer light are as intense, as substantial and as present as in a Hopper painting. . . . The characters themselves are as clear as if they had been etched out of wood with fire. . . . {Doctorow's} attention to detail, however, never becomes just an excursion down memory lane. . . . {He} finds feelings that are deep in the settings of a more innocent past. His past purrs and hisses and is capable of scratching deep enough to draw blood.

107. The Young Scientists:

America's Future and the Winning of the Westinghouse
Joseph R. Berger,Leon M. Lederman / Hardcover / Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. / December 1993

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The author "uses the annual national Westinghouse Science Talent Search as a vehicle to examine science education in the United States . . . and to argue that we desperately need to make more young scientists if the United States is to maintain its economic and technological stature." (N Y Times Book Rev)

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Every few months, American newspapers publish another dreary statistic about the country's scientific ignorance. But there are schools in the U.S. - like the Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant High School in New York, and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham - that are exceptions to this gloomy picture, that may show the way for this country to develop the scientists and researchers we need to maintain our economic and technological stature. These are the schools that year after year win the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, the nation's most prestigious academic contest. They have evolved winning systems because, above all, they teach their students how to do research. Students do science, rather than just study it. And the students, whether they win the Westinghouse or not, go on to establish solid careers in science. Early training works. The proof is in some remarkable statistics. Five teenaged Westinghouse winners have gone on as adults to capture the Nobel Prize. Eight have been awarded MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Twenty-eight are members of the National Academy of Science. In short, winning a Westinghouse is remarkably predictive of later success in science. Just as the best pianists and ballet dancers are those who have been taught their craft in childhood, scientists too are bred at an early age. The Young Scientists looks at what makes the winning schools and students, and at how parents and teachers can help.