The Hacker Clinic board demanded Adorno halve his work before he resigned.

Evidence

Conditions were clearly disagreeable for both Adorno and Hacker and reached such a crisis in May 1953 that Adorno received a letter signed by the whole executive committee of the Hacker Clinic demanding that he relinquish half his salary and work half-time so as to be free of the administrative duties and community relations which were obviously such a burden to himupon which he resigned. But even under these conditions Adorno succeeded in carrying through a one-man research project: a purely qualitative content analysis of three months of material taken from the astrology column of the Los Angeles Times, a right-wing Republican newspaper. Adorno worked on this project during a stay in the USA that lasted nearly a year, and the results were published in Germany in 1957 in the Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien under the title `The Stars Down to Earth: the Los Angeles Times Astrology Columna Study in Secondary Superstition’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1956

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• SHARE: The precise detail that Adorno’s astrology study analyzed exactly three months of LA Times astrology columns on a right-wing Republican paper is a niche datum a Frankfurt School specialist would enjoy.