Word: bellowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honor & Respect. Two authors who had been invited, John Hersey and Saul Bellow, publicly agreed with the criticism of Johnson's foreign policies but said they would attend the festival...
...Breed. What the U.S. has today is a "new breed" of Jew "who is proud of his Jewishness even when he is vague in his knowledge and definition of what Judaism means to him" -the man who buys Saul Bellow's Herzog and "wants his children to know more about his tradition." The American Jew, said Kelman, has largely abandoned fundamentalism for ecumenism; while he wants more rabbis and religious schools, he also has "reverence for the integrity of those who hold different beliefs and he does not look on those who differ from him as wicked or deficient...
John Hersey and Saul Bellow, two other writers who were asked to read their works at the arts festival, voiced strong disagreement with the Administration's foreign policy but said that they would appear. Lowell said last night that "there is some confusion in most people's minds about what accepting an invitation to an arts festival means." Asked what acceptance does mean, he replied "It's not clear...
...Bellow, who also accepted the white House invitation, commented that "the President intends, in his own way, to encourage American artists." He went on to say that he considered the arts festival "an official function, not a political occasion which demands agreements with Mr. Johnson on all the policies of his Administration...
...Herzog, Bellow (1 last week...