Author: Grace Alvino
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THEODOR ADORNO IN LOS ANGELES, 1941 by Grace Alvino
When they put him in California in the bare sun he called it violence, and that—the refusal above all—was how they knew him. Staring into the bleached tarmac.A wool suit in the Pacific Palisades. On the garden patio, he sat with a monographhe’d carried through Oxford, through New York, and read it in the glare…