The Institute deliberately blurred its institutional status for courtesy and self-interest.

Evidence

Page 297 corresponds in this country more to that of an endowment or foundation than that of an institute. As we encouraged this misunderstanding ourselves, partly out of courtesy and partly in our own interest, we should now see to it, if the various negotiations fail, that it is fully cleared up, to avoid any conflict of this sort recurring in the future. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 319

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the recurring theme of the Institute’s strategic self-presentation to American hosts and funders. — connects to: Institutions are fluid arrangements that blur any formal-informal binary. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 18; The Institute suppressed overt politics in favor of indirect critical presentation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 539
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institutions are fluid arrangements that blur any formal-informal binary. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 18; The Institute suppressed overt politics in favor of indirect critical presentation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 539