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Abstract painting has given dignity to people’s putteringing with colors.
The voices break above the noise of traffic on Madison Avenue, slips of speech during an intermission at a Town Hall recital, even while waiting for a Monday night lecture to begin, voices among people you’d least expect to talk about their psyche as freely as an appendectomy. The girl examines your admission ticket to a lecture class at the New School. The next time, you stop and talk. She plays with clay, making glazed ash trays. Abstract painting has given dignity to people’s puttering with colors. Why don’t you sit in with the class, you ask, instead of taking a seat against the wall? “Oh, [191] I feel kind of left out as a ticket-taker. And that’s exactly what my analyst warned me against. You have to mingle with people in order to relate to them. You just can’t wish it in your mind.” What about the professor, do you ever feel like disagreeing with her? “Oh her! She thinks the entire world is an Oedipus situation!”
ex Julius Horwitz, “The Voices,” in The City (1953) : 184-196 (190)
borrowable at archive.org : link
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Julius Horwitz (1920-1986)
About the Author (same volume) : link
Julius Horwitz papers (73 boxes) at Boston University
SPE-00421 : link
an interesting “Scope and Contents”
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“Julius Horwitz Is Dead; Wrote on Social Issues”
The New York Times (May 20, 1986) : link
Julius Horwitz, the author of nine books, many of them dealing with the welfare system and other social issues, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Larchmont, N.Y. He was 65 years old.
A native of Cleveland, Mr. Horwitz worked from 1956 to 1962 as a caseworker for the New York City Welfare Department.
His first novel, “The Inhabitants,” a critical look at the city's welfare system, was published in 1960.
In 1953, the year he graduated from the New School for Social Research, Mr. Horwitz published “The City,” a collection of short stories and sketches about New York.
His novels included “Natural Enemies,” which was made into a movie starring Hal Holbrook, Jose Ferrer and Viveca Lindfors; “Can I Get There by Candlelight,” about Americans in England during World War II, and “The W.A.S.P.,” about the explosive relationships between a young black minister of a Harlem storefront church and a group of sympathetic whites.
Mr. Horwitz is survived by his wife, Lois, of Larchmont, and two sons, Jonathan, of Salem, Mass., and David, of Philadelphia.
all titles at LoC
- The City (1953)
LoC : permalink - The Inhabitants (1960)
LoC : permalink - Can I Get There by Candlelight (1964)
LoC : permalink - The Wasp (1967)
LoC : permalink - The Diary of A. N. : The Story of the House on West 104th Street. (1970)
LoC : permalink - The Married Lovers (1973)
LoC : permalink - Natural Enemies (1975)
LoC : permalink - Landfall (1977)
LoC : permalink - The Best Days (1980)
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