The exemplary anecdotes are known to us all. Adorno arrived in America in 1938 to work on Paul Lazarsfeld's Princeton Radio Research Project. Lazarsfeld wrote of his new acquaintance: "He looks as you would imagine a very absent-minded German professor, and he behaves so foreign that I feel like a member of the Mayflower society."' Adorno traveled to the Project's offices in an abandoned brewery in Newark, New Jersey through a tunnel under the Hudson river and admitted: "I felt a little as if I were in Kafka's Nature Theater of