Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. The literary critic and editor of Commentary tells of his lust for money, power and fame in this semi-autobiographical account of his career...
...Whole Issue. For a decade the most quotable?and possibly influential ?critic of U.S. society, Galbraith has spent a good half of his time in recent months focusing on the single issue of Viet Nam. He has promoted his plan for de-escalation on TV, held forth from college platforms across the country, argued his case in publications as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and Playboy. His How to Get Out of Viet Nam, a 47-page, 350 broadside, has gone through a printing of 250,000. As national chairman of the liberal, 50,000-member Americans...
Senility was not behind Hershey's directive, as one critic implied. The General has spent nearly half his professional life in the Selective Service and has come to view it as a separate social system that must independently punish its own miscreants. This view--and not dim-wittedness--made him insist that there was nothing wrong with his directive, that it merely presented an alternative method of handling "illegal" protestors. The newspapers railed him for his "inability to understand the larger issue...
MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. In this 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 influence in the New York literary world...
Died. Yvor Winters, 67, poet, critic and longtime (1937-66) Stanford literature professor; of cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. As a critic, he was formidable, engaging his peers in bitter polemics. He preferred Robert Bridges to T. S. Eliot, once called Ezra Pound "a barbarian loose in a museum." His own poetry, for which he won Yale's 1960 Bollingen Prize, was a mirror of the man, cool, sharp, diamond-hard, as in his definition of his work...