Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. In his controversial quasi-autobiography, the literary critic and editor of Commentary tells of his scramble from the obscurity of a Brooklyn slum to a position of prestige and influence in the New York literary world...
HARRY SIROF Brooklyn...
...that it is not going to be won by force of arms. An unwinnable conflict, theologians point out, violates the traditional concept of the just war, in which the probability of accomplishing a moral goal must outweigh the violent means involved. Says Lutheran Pastor Richard Neuhaus of Brooklyn, a co-founder of Clergy and Laymen Concerned: "There is no legitimate proportionality between the credible goals of the war and the means being used to win it. The credible goals are weak and tenuous, and the means are evident in their harshness...
...most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly Commentary, fits a familiar pattern. Brainy son of Jewish European immigrants, his ambition fired by memories of a boyhood spent in the Brooklyn slums, he worked his way up from smartest kid in the class to a position of influence and prestige in New York intellectual circles...
...College at Cambridge University, had a piece of criticism published in F. R. Leavis' formidable literary organ, Scrutiny, and was immediately initiated into a privileged class. Although he knew by then that he would never be a poet, he was flattered to be "magically transformed overnight from a Brooklyn 'barbarian' into 'one of the young gentlemen from America...