From Doris Drucker (10 October 1943)

Dear Karl and Ilona,

[…] We do miss you a lot, and even Sinn is only an Abglanz of his former self which reflected life with you. He came to our house the other day with his temporary masters - Honeychile - you know the mousy librarian and her husband - who live at the Brockway house. The husband tried optimistically to train Sinn as a bird dog, but it seems that he keeps on pointing in the opposite direction which, of course, is also a marvellous alibi for missed shots. […]

Politically and philosophically, not to mention economically I have become completely disoriented since you left. Who is there to turn to? Alas, the void can't be filled. Pater and I tried to find Ersatz for our heckling bees with you; we baited Fromm but he did not bite and excused himself at 9.30 saying he needed his beauty sleep. Our friends Feeleys have left, Helen and the children to stay with her mother while Paul is with the Marine Corps for the duration. He turned out to be quite a bayonet fighter. …the Parks … closest to us are the Fergussons, but their tendencies are more literary than political, and besides they are very busy.

[…] The one, Kenneth Burke, a very esoteric literary critic who comes up only for two days a week, … Neutra … his purpose is to make people happy, to give them better houses, better clothes, better food, better cultural values, i.e. improve their material existence to such an extent that they don't need supernatural forces. When you remember the reaction to Peter's Kierkegaard lecture, you can guess that he finds quite an audience here. Anyway, Neutra has a plan to rebuild Syracuse N.Y. (ausgerechnet) as a model community after the war, and his main motive in coming to Bennington was to enlist the students in the venture. Everybody in the College is to be "integrated" in it.

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Reference:
KPA: 47/13, 57-58