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January, 1968George F. Kennan: The Heart of a DiplomatExcept for a brief interval, George Kennan has lived his adult life in complaint. French Culture & the JewsThe waters look unruffled, the current appears to be following its customary course, the bystander is lulled by a deceptive calm; then, suddenly and dramatically, someone stirs the murky depths, bringing to the surface a host of slimy creatures, and all those things people have forgotten and do not want to remember. The "Plain People" & American DemocracyIts engine sputtering against the cold, the school bus left the town of Oelwein, Iowa, at 7:45 A.M. on Friday, November 19, 1965. Two StoriesTwo Stories. Jewish Dreams and NightmaresThere is something presumptuously proprietary about the whole idea of sorting out writers according to national, ethnic, or religious origins, like so many potatoes whose essential characteristics can be determined by whether they come from Idaho or Maine. The Trouble with "Our Crowd"Ten years ago, Barry E. Supple, an economic historian then teaching at Harvard, published a scholarly article which demonstrated that in the 19th century a significant share of American investment banking was concentrated in Jewish hands. In Memory of Guido CantelliWhen Guido Cantelli was killed in an airplane crash on November 24, 1956, the loss was what it would have been if Arturo Toscanini had been killed in a train wreck in 1903. Old FriendsFew events, save perhaps the absorption of one very good stiff drink, can make us feel so benign, so blessed and so willing to bless, as settling-in again for an evening with an old friend who's been away for a time. February, 1968A Defective Institution?The American Presidency is an office of such power, prestige, and historical dignity that most of us are content to accept it as one of the prime given facts of the political universe. The McCarthy CandidacyIt is only recently that I have stopped doing a double-take upon encountering lapel-buttons emblazoned “McCarthy.” Boaz and the Israelites: A StoryA story. James Joyce in His LettersIn 1935, near the end of a long affectionate letter to his son George in America, James Joyce wrote: “Here I conclude. My eyes are tired. For over half a century they have gazed into nullity, where they have found a lovely nothing.” DevaluationLondon: “What would be the use if people were to say: ‘The British are nice people, but they haven't got any money?’” Translating the PsalmsSome of the fundamental texts of Chinese antiquity are so ambiguous, a scholar once told me, that not only what they mean is in dispute, but even what they are about. The Draft Card GestureA month has gone by since I sent my draft card to President Johnson, “symbolically torn in half,” as I put it to him. TV (Again)Maybe Mcluhan is right and the medium is the massage, subtly working us over and restructuring the personality. March, 1968Vietnam and American PoliticsWhat is an opponent of U.S. policy in Vietnam to do in the 1968 Presidential election? Why Our Schools Have FailedIn the context of traditional American belief, Section 402 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is one of the simplest, most unambiguous directives ever issued to a government agency. The Israeli OccupationNINE MONTHS AFTER the Six-Day War, the occupied territories are still a kind of popular sensation in Israel, a source of pride and a headache. For some, the occupation has proved that Jews can... The New Status QuoMOST ISRAELIS were proved wrong by the Six-Day War. They had been wrong before the war, when most of them minimized the dangers of escalation; and now, nine months later, those among them who... Triste ParisIt is with reluctance that I undertake to write about my year in Paris. An Undiscovered MasterTHE FRENCH writer Raymond Queneau has had in his own country both a popular success and a succbs d'estime. In England, where translations of his books are not too hard to find and where... Crime and PunishmentThe tone of public documents reflects the temper of the times, and the temper of modern America seems to be that of Lyndon B. Johnson. Nkrumah-A Post MortemThe recent history of Africa cries out for the insights of a Trotsky, a man whom the late Isaac Deutscher has characterized as being possessed both of “the revolutionary's urge to make history and the writer's impulse to describe it and grasp its meaning.” Downhill All the Way, by Leonard WoolfBLOOMSBURY. The word itself is enough to lower one's spirits slightly. To hear once again about how a number of gifted and socially privileged people came together in Cambridge at the turn... The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, by George Brown TindallTHE SOUTH, announced H. L. Mencken in the 1920's, is the "bonghole of the United States, a cesspool of baptists, a miasma of Methodists, snake-charmers, phony real-estate operators, and... The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail BulgakovMIKHAIL BULGAKOV was already twelve years old when Chekhov died in 1904, an overlap that seems to preclude reincarnation as a possible clue to the uncanny affinities between the two... April, 1968Voting the Lesser EvilAttempting to articulate the dilemmas faced by the liberal voter this year, COMMENTARY herewith continues its regular column, Election '68. This department, which will run continuously until... The Battle of the PentagonTHE CADRES OF that citizen's army which marched on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967 were composed of a coalition which could never have come together ten years before, and were in fact held in a... On Not Being a JewMY GIRLFRIEND is trying to decide if I was an Auschwitz guard in order to know how seriously to regard my attentions. She is somewhat old-fashioned, of course, a quality I respect her for, but... Hebrew Between Two WorldsThis "new literature" is the death-rattle of the 19th century, just as the Kabbalah and Hasidism were the death-rattle of the Dark Ages. -M. Z. Feierberg, Whither? THERE IS SOMETHING peculiarly... Fantasy & CircumstanceREALITY, we often hear today, has become so fantastic that only an art of fantasy can hope to imitate it, just as we hear that if those who are running the affairs of this world are sane, then... Theater ChronicleTHE POSITIVE THING one may say about Arthur Miller's new play, The Price, is that it is relatively free from extraneous significance. There are no Forms from Greek tragedy making an... Protest: Pacifism and Politics, by James FinnTHE PEACE MOVEMENT at present Defies definition; it has a score of centers and no fixed boundaries. Nevertheless, as the most dynamic political expression of the time it calls for exploration,... Americans in Israel, by Harold R. IsaacsIS ISRAEL TO BE merely a haven for the persecuted and the stateless, settled by those who have no other choice and financed by those who do? Like so much else in Israel, this question has... Twenty Letters to a Friend, by Svetlana AlliluyevaSVETLANA ALLILUYEVA IS the last, and least talented, of the Bronte sisters, and the only way to read Twenty Letters to a Friend is not as history but as a romantic novel. The clue is in the... The Experience of Literature, by Lionel TrillingIN LIONEL TRILLING'S short story, "Of This Time, Of That Place," a college instructor, Dr. Howe, is teaching a composition class, English IA, at Dwight College. The text for the course is... The Concept of Ideology and Other Essays, by George LichtheimGEORGE LICHTHEIM, a contributing editor of this journal, is familiar to its readers. His informed, perceptive, and frequently acerbic essays on politics are the work of a publicist whose... May, 1968The Democrats, Kennedy & The Murder of Dr. KingThis article is the third in a series dedicated to exploring the alternatives open to the responsible liberal voter in 1968 (see THEODORE DRAPER'S "Vietnam & American Politics" in our March... Dean Rusk: In the American GrainI have more confidence than some commentators do in the wisdom of our people and their capacity for understanding the essentials of policy. But public opnion can neither devise policy nor... The Madmen of Sighet-A StoryTHIS STORY is about madmen. I tell it because I like stories, and because I like madmen. Besides, the story takes place in Sighet, the town where I was born-and that, won't you agree, is reason... Relevance in the SynagogueEVERYONE, especially the young, seems to agree that the synagogue is irrelevant. When Jewish college students (and youthful or wishfully youthful college teachers) are asked whether the... Europe & the United StatesLONDON, APRIL: This may be the wrong moment to dwell upon the relationship between America and Western Europe, as seen from the capital of what in more spacious days was known as the British... Levi-Strauss & the PrimitiveWHY ARE WE so fascinated by the primitive? Why do we continue to investigate primitive man? Is it because we envy his simplicity and spontaneity? Does his animality excite and "eroticize"... Metaphysical ObduracyTHERE IS A class of popular theological books today which looks like a literal Godsend, or must do so to publishers. These are not by any means all professional theological statements.... Updike's CouplesTHAT MOST DELICATE monster Humbert Humbert suffered, as we know, extravaganzas of the nerves and was concerned to record these seizures in commensurate imJOHN THOMPSON, who appraises con-... The Dissenting Academy, edited by Theodore RoszakAT ANY TIME, it is not easy to talk about the life of scholarship without sounding starchy. It becomes even harder when one is faced by this collection of essays, some of which are, to put it... A Time to Build, by Michael NovakMICHAEL NOVAK is a Roman Catholic, a layman, and a theologian. In America that combination has till now been rare enough to claim attention. What is more important about this... Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, by Robert Jay LiftonTHE PREMISE of this book, that extraordinary historic events must have extraordinary psychic effects, seems at once plausible and MARY ELLMANN, a frequent contribu- tor, reviewed Robert... A Mediterranean Society, by S. D. GoiteinISLAMIC STUDIES were sired by Theology out of Classics, and CHARLES ISSAWI, Ragnar Nurkse Profes- sor of economics at Columbia, is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim grant.THE STAR OF... The Conservative Tradition in America, by Allen GuttmannA LITERARY STUDY of the conservative tradition in America sounds like a useful undertaking. We have had books on the liberal imagination and the liberal tradition; why not, in a spirit of... June, 1968In Praise of PopulismThis essay by PAUL GOODMAN is the fourth in a series dealing with the issues posed for the liberal voter by the 1968 Presidential election. Previous contributors to this series-which will... Israel Among the Nations: A Historian's ReflectionsONE DOES NOT have to be a committed Zionist to recognize that the establishment of the State of Israel has been the most remarkable and most constructive achievement of the Jewish people as a... The Betrayal of the American CityIN MOST RESPECTS, the rioting triggered in more than a hundred American cities by the assassination of Martin Luther King followed the by-now familiar course. Although the violence did not reach... The Year 2000 and All ThatTHE APPROACH OF the year 2000 is certain to be attended by a greater fanfare of predictions, prophecies, surmises, and forewarnings than any millennial year in history. In the past twelve months,... Baldwin: The Prophet As ArtistJAMES BALDWIN'S new novel, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone,* arrives at a crucial moment with a new installment of that expert testimony his fiction and his essays have given us... TV SpecialsACCORDING TO Robert Jay Lifton, the 20th century is fostering a new breed of human beings whose dispositions are so indeterminate that such old-fashioned terms as "character" or "personality,"... Kit Carson in PeruIQUITOS, PERU, a port on the Amazon River, is one of the last frontier towns in the hemisphere. The thick, extensive jungle that separates the town from the rest of the continent has never been... A Sense of the Present, by William PhillipsAS A FOUNDER of Partisan Review, William Phillips is assured of a place in the literary history of our time. This magazine still maintains its high standard and continues to publish work... Elder and Younger Brothers, by A. Roy EckardtIT IS NOT gratuitous to consider A. Roy Eckardt's Elder and Younger Brothers as a clinical depiction of the problem of Jewish An authoritative account of the explosive forces that touched off... Stop-Time, by Frank ConroyTHE LEAST important things in a novel are its made-up parts, for true imagination lies not in plot invention but in the realization of actuality. Novels that depend on amazing twists or... The Double Helix, by James D. WatsonWHEN Captain Scott reached the South Pole in January PETER CAWS, a new contributor, is the author of The Philosophy of Science: A Systematic Account and Science and the Theory of Value. POSITION... Gleanings: Essays in Jewish History, Letters, and Art, by Cecil RothMANY YEARS AGO, when I was a schoolboy in Edinburgh, Cecil Roth came up from London to give a talk to the Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society. The chairman of the meeting, an ill-informed... July, 1968The New Left and Its LimitsFOR THE last few years I have looked with increasing skepticism on the analyses and the actions of the radical Left in America. By the radical Left I mean those who believe there is something... Journey to SarajevoThe present memoir was written some time before the recent political upheaval in Czechoslovakia. NEW YORK: A young Swiss couple in the Swissair lounge, intently studying Mad magazine. "Ah,... The Politics of DevelopmentNATIONAL POLICIES, and the philosophies on which they are based, are as much subject to the rules of fashion as fashion itself. There can hardly be an intelligent person in the Western world who... Teaching Jewish TeachersTHOUGH THE American Jewish community in recent years has shown a good deal of nervous concern over its own prospects for survival, there seems to be little sense of how survival should be... Translating the RubaiyyatOMAR ALI-SHAH entrusted me, a year ago, with the task of translating Omar Khayaam's Rubaiyyat into English verse from a Persian text, the "Jan Fishan Khan" manuscript, which has been in the... On Being a Woman in Shul"IT IS BETTER to pray at home, for in the synagogue it is impossible to escape envy and the hearing of idle talk." Thus, the advice of Elijah ben Solomon, the Gaon of Vilna, in a letter to... James Bond UnmaskedIN OUR TIME, no books, no films, have enjoyed such a dazzling international success as the James Bond stories. But the impact was not instantaneous. When Casino Royale appeared in 1953 the... Anna Karenina and Other Essays, by F. R. LeavisTHE 1963 reprint of Scrutiny was equipped with an analytical index, which includes six columns of references to D.H.Lawrence, seven to Henry James, and seven to T.S. Eliot ("his... Israel: Politics and People, by Leonard J. FeinISRAEL'S BRIEF HISTORY as a state has been attended by the successive exposition and demolishment of an astonishing number of myths concerning its nature and purpose. Each of these myths... The Committee, by Walter GoodmanAS A CHRONICLE Of the threedecade history of the House Un-American Activities Committee, this long book is unflaggingly interesting, frequently entertaining, and occasionally elegant.... My Life and My Views, by Max BornTHESE EIGHT essays, couched for the most part in untechnical language, at once command attention because they represent the social thinking of a man whose name is a truly eminent one... The Loneliest Campaign, by Irwin RossTHE LAST FEW months have inured the American public to surprises in Presidential politics. No recent astonishments, though, can surpass those of 1948. Before the election of that year,... August, 1968The Professors and the PoorNOT LONG AGO, a Negro poverty worker from the Roxbury section of Boston came to see me at the Joint Center for Urban Studies, directed there by a liberal business executive who had thought I... Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A FragmentWITHIN THE PAST two centuries, three events have shaken and are still shaking Jewish religious existence-the Emancipation and its after-effects, the Nazi Holocaust, and the rise of the first... Charles Ives, AmericanTHE MUSIC OF Charles Edward Ives has been "rediscovered" every decade since the 1 9 20's. The present revival has reached such substantial proportions that it has now become possible to speak... The Conversion-A StoryONE SUNDAY EVENING, six weeks after his arrival in MAlaga, Stanley invited his neighbor in the pension, a medical student named Luis, to share a bottle of wine. His long hours in the town... Anarchism RevisitedThere are still thousands of anarchists scattered thinly over many countries of the world. There are still anarchist groups and anarchist periodicals, anarchist schools and anarchist com-... The Loneliest Jews of AllTHE ASSOCIATION of Orthodox Jewish Scientists (AOJS) is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Since its inception in this ERICH IsAAC teaches geography at the City College of New... A Nostalgia for SwingA FEW MONTHS ago I celebrated -if that's the word I wantmy thirty-fifth birthday. I am now forever removed from even the most far-fetched reach of Gen. Lewis B. Hershey and eligible,... Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier, by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum"LAKEVILLE" IS a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years after World War... Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943, by Kitty Muggeridge and Ruth AdamIN AN EARLIER biography, Margaret Cole, a long-time friend and political associate, wrote that Beatrice Webb, like "happy countries," had "almost no personsonal history." There is a sense... A Cab at the Door: A Memoir, by V.S. PritchettIT IS A great pleasure to read V. S. Pritchett's A Cab At The Door. The book is filled with charm, good nature, and intelligent wit-old-fashioned virtuesand, especially considering... Burning Conscience, by Claude Eatherly and Gunther Anders; The Hiroshima Pilot, by William Bradford Huie; Dark Star, by Ronnie DuggerCLAUDE EATHERLY was the reconnaissance pilot who on August 6, 1945 ordered the message sent to the plane carrying the atom bomb that weather conditions made Hiroshima a satisfactory... Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, by Staughton LyndMUCH OF THE history written in the United States today makes deadly reading. Aside from a handful of gifted amateurs, American historians are largely college or university professors, who... September, 1968The Psalms in TranslationThe following exchange was occasioned by MILTON HIMMELFARB'S article, "Translating the Psalms," which appeared in the February COMMENTARY. MITCHELL DAHOOD, S. J. is professor of Ugaritic... What Happened in FranceLONDON, AUGUST.-Contemplating the French volcano from the wrong side of the Channel this summer has been an unnerving experience. At times one had the sensation of being involved in one of those... Why the Poor People's Campaign FailedIT WAS ONLY a few years ago that Michael Harrington wrote, in The Other America, that a chief characteristic of the poor was their invisibility. The white middle class had designed its... Poland: The Party and the Jews"It is anti-Semitism when somebody comes out against the Jews jst because they are Jews." -Wladyslaw Gomulka HE MOST NOTABLE feature of the potical turbulence in Poland this year has been the... Black Power at ColumbiaAT NOON on Tuesday, April 23, 1968, a student rally was held at the sundial on the Columbia University campus-both the time and the place were traditional for such activities-to protest the... Letter from IsraelIN APRIL of this year, a meeting was held in Jerusalem which had a proper official name but which the Israeli man in the street was pleased to call "The Millionaires' Conference." This was a... Television and RealityTELEVISION as Reality" might almost have been a better title for this article. The last five horrific years have clearly demonstrated, if demonstration was necessary, that television is no... Return of the RepressedJAMES GOULD COZZENS's new novel, Morning Noon and Night,* is the first he has published since 1957, when By Love Possessed became the runaway best-seller of all the Eisenhower years. Since... The Peasant of the Garonne, by Jacques MaritainIT WAS, I think, during my freshman year in college that I decided to read every word that Jacques Maritain had written. I was in a Roman Catholic seminary then, on the campus of a... Young Radicals: Notes on Committed Youth, by Kenneth KenistonNO ONE KNOWS better than Kenneth Keniston that fourteen interviews do not constitute an unshakable foundation for a study of Young Radicals, even when the claim carries the modifier,... The Modern Century, by Northrop FryeLIKE ARISTOTLE, Northrop Frye is a taxonomic critic, a biologist of the body of literature. Just as a biologist sees the structure and function of each part of an organism both in isolation... The Walls of Jerusalem, by Chaim RaphaelCHAIM RAPHAEL, it might almost be said, has invented a new genre of historical writing. Taking the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 .E. as the great traumatic experience... The Disney Version, by Richard SchickelNO FIELD CAN compete with popular culture in offering the intellectual such boundless opportunities for making an ass of himself. For both its attackers and its defenders, popular culture... October, 1968The New York Intellectuals: A Chronicle & A CritiqueWE DO NOT YET have a full-scale history of intellectuals in the United States, but when that book comes to be written one of its central themes will surely be that our intellectuals have done... The Curious Case of Kol NidreAll vows, renunciations, promises, obligations, oaths, taken from this Day of Atonement till the next, may we attain it in peace, we regret them in advance. May we be absolved of them, may we be... Rhetoric and the Arab MindIT IS NATURAL enough that the parties to any conflict should construct onesided versions of the nature of the conflict, and therefore it is also understandable that the desire to be fair... The Fiction MachineThe Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream? -Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" THOUGHTS THAT... The State of Social ScienceHow DOES one review encyclopedias? Elephantine conglomerations of knowledge, they are likely to leave one dazed after several perusals. Perusals rather than readings, for one does not... The Soviet Achievement, by J. P. NettlLIKE MANY another great and complex historical event, the Russian Revolution does not yield easily to popularization. Mr. Nettl tells us that he set out to write his book for the reader who is... The Passionate People: What It Means to be a Jew in America, by Roger KahnROGER KAHN'S The Passionate People (which, according to Herbert Kubly, "perhaps . . .does for the Jewish middle class what "Our Crowd" does for the monied upper-class Jew"), appears at... Language and Silence, by George SteinerONE EVENING some years ago in Cambridge (England) I was present at a party at which two dons had come to tell a third what a brilliant man George Steiner, being considered as a possible fellow... O The Chimneys, by Nelly SachsGERMANY, a country whose inhabitants are fond of being called the people of poets and thinkers, has often reserved a "special treatment" of her own for just such men. Consider the fate of... The French Enlightenment and the Jews, by Arthur HertzbergTHE HISTORY OF European Jewry during the last two or three hundred years has assumed, in our generation, an interest that goes beyond the usual historical curiosity. Paradoxically... November, 1968Avant-Garde TheatricsIF ONE thinks historically about the theater, it is easy to see its conventions as reflections of the various ages through which it has passed. The Athenians, for example, showed their... On the Steps of Low Library: Liberalism & the Revolution of the YoungIT IS by conscious design that I borrow the title of Norman Mailer's famous report of the march on the Pentagon of October 1967 for a report of the disturbances at Columbia University in the... The Colony-A StoryIT WAS ALL like one long dream: the eighteen-day boat trip to Argentina, the encounter with my Polish landsleit in Monte- video and Buenos Aires, my speech in the Thea- ter Soleil, and then the... Czechoslovakia 1968LONDON, OCTOBER.-This is not a good moment to be writing about the probable shape of things to come in Eastern Europe. Setting aside the obvious unpredictability of the Soviet Union's present... Vietnam & the LawON JULY 10 of this year four men were sentenced in Boston to two years in prison for conspiring to counsel young men to violate the nation's draft laws. They were the renowned pediatrician Dr.... Paganism, Religion & ModernityJEWS-MOST JEWS-are modern, enlightened. Judaism isn't. By Judaism I mean, for instance, the synagogue on Yom Kippur. Even of those of us who were in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, probably... The End of Obscenity, by Charles RembarPERMISSIVE DECISIONS by the Supreme Court in obscenity cases constituted one of the main issues in the struggle over confirmation of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice. So there is... Victorian Minds, by Gertrude HimmelfarbDOUBTLESS God could create a better interpreter of the English 19th century, but doubtless God hasn't. So might the homely ROBERT A. NISBET'S article, "The Year 2000 and All That," appeared in... Four Strange Books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther, by Elias Bickerman"AS A CLASSICAL scholar," writes Dr. Bickerman in his Preface, "the author is interested in the books of the Bible which were written in the age of Greek intellectual dominance. In the... The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, by Shlomo AvineriTOWARD the end of his life Marx exclaimed, "I am not a Marxist," to underline the difference between his own views and those of his son-in-law. Since that time, beginning with his... Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America, by James GilbertIN 1962, William Phillips analyzed his experience as an editor of MICHAEL HARRINGTON'S most recent book is Toward a Democratic Left. A Critical Study of Twentieth-Century Negro American... December, 1968Television & PoliticsFOR A FEW MOMENTS during the Democratic Convention, television viewers might have imagined themselves watching the penultimate scene of a late late movieone of those political fairytales... The Menace of the Peaceful AtomIN THE LATE 1940's, when atomic power plants were first being discussed in public, highly respected individuals predicted that the atom would make electricity too cheap to meter. Although this... Is Electoral Reform the Answer?FOR THE FIRST TIME since the Progressive era of sixty years ago, the American political system may be at a point of significant mutation. The Progressive era gave us wom- en's suffrage and... Sickness-A StoryIN BOOKS, radiators hum and sing; in my house, the radiator howls and yelps as if a baby were locked up in it, an angry baby, who though he cries and cries, still does not bring his mother... Race, Rage & Eldridge CleaverUNTIL TWO OR THREE years ago, not many people knew who Eldridge Cleaver was. Almost the only people who had heard of him were those who read Ramparts, where some of his writings had been... Adlai Stevenson in Retrospect"MADLY FOR ADLAI" read a campaign button from the two Eisenhower-Stevenson Presidential campaigns, and it has since become apparent that those who wore it meant it. One might like Ike,... Explaining American JewsTHE PAPERBACK EDITION Of "Our Crowd," Stephen Birmingham's book about the Jewish banking families of New York, sold 550,000 copies in a single week not long ago. In three months, the... Miami and the Siege of Chicago, by Norman MailerNORMAN MAILER is above all a novelist in this book of reportage because in it he writes, as always when at his best, about things that he has not yet made up his mind about. Once he lets his... Prelude to Riot: A View of Urban America from the Bottom, by Paul JacobsTHERE IS, by now, a standard 1 form for writing about violence in the ghetto, and with "riot" in its title and Watts as its subject, this book gives every appearance of belonging to the... Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany, 1914-1935, by Harold L. Poor; Kurt Tucholsky: What If ...? Translated by Harry Zohn and Karl F. RossON DECEMBER 21, 1935, Kurt Tucholsky died at Hinda, in Sweden, of an overdose of sleeping pills. He was 45 years old, had often been compared with Heine and, like his spiritual ancestor,... Waist Deep in the Big Muddy: Personal Reflections on 1968, by Richard H. RovereRICHARD ROVERE can write; he can think; he's sensitive; he's DAVID T. BAZELON is the author of The Paper Economy and Power in America. been around. And here he makes a brief, strenuous effort to... Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, by Gunnar MyrdalIT IS ALWAYS difficult to review the big books of great men, particularly if, as with Gunnar Myrdal, their more important contributions lie in their actions rather than in their words. The... |
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