By 1953 the Institute’s survival depended on recruiting back its dispersed former members.

Evidence

The main reason is that the Institute simply cannot go on without help. Pollock will be leaving in the summer, and Teddie, whose return I am fighting for, will still have to stay over there for at least a few months. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 488

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Teddie’ is the circle’s nickname for Adorno, which readers of the institutional history need in order to parse correspondence.
• XREF: connects to: Former Institut members scattered into American universities and government rather than returning together — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 855
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Former Institut members scattered into American universities and government rather than returning together — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 855