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February 2001

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The critic Lionel Trilling spent his entire career as a professor of literature at Columbia University. Born in 1905, he is often remembered as the first Jew to get tenure in an Ivy League English department, but his ambitions ranged well beyond academic


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Michael Kimmage, here making his first appearance in COMMENTARY, is a doctoral student at Harvard in American studies.

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