From: michele missner <missnerm>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:39:59 -0500

How are you? I have never found Paul Fleishman's books very interesting except
_Joyful noise_ and the other poetry one that he wrote. Maybe that is because he is a guy type of writer!!

I have been really busy lately and haven't even really read most of the posts on ccbc-net this month. I have been running around going to conferences. I finally had a day in my office to clean things up there. I need to retire so I can read, paint and smell the roses.

I will get to work more on your project next week. I looked at the NCTE page and will look again but I could not find a discussion group for high school teachers. I will post again to lm_net and think of some other ways to approach the curricular reading so we can get some responses.

We went to Chicago for the week-end which was fun, but looking for a parking place is a major ordeal. We are so spoiled here. We went to 2 exhibits, 2 movies, and one play. There was a Robert Capa photographic exhibit at the Terra museum of American ARt which was very interesting. Film seems to have made a giant leap forward between WWII and the Vietnam Conflict or perhaps it was a difference in cameras. In any case the exhibit covered his work from the Spanish Civil War, WWII, and Vietnam. It was frightening to see the parallels in the photographs of all three wars--the futility, and waste of it all. There were a few portraits. We also went to the Mary Cassatt exhibit at the ARt Institute. It was very interesting to see what was considered avant garde and feminist at that time. There was an interesting article somewhere comparing her to Berthe Morisot. Cassatt was considered the much stronger of the two painters. I thought that her pastels were the most outstanding part of the exhibit.

I thought that Emily recommended The slums of Beverly HIlls. It was really awful. We left in the middle. Emily said she wished she had so she didn't recommend it. We also saw the old Orson Wells movie, Touch of Evil. We didn't like that either but stayed until the end. There really wasn't a big choice of movies that we don't have playing here.

I am not going to tell you what I thought of ART until after you see it. It was a very good performance. Michael Gross was in the production here. It was interesting that the review pointed out that the men were heterosexual!!!

Indecent exposure about Oscar Wilde was at the U of Chicago, but there was standing room only. It will be in D.C. when we are there next month so we got tickets there.

I am looking forward to the children's lit conference in Milwaukee. Will report if there is anything of interest.

Michele

Marc Aronson wrote:




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