Word: demiworld
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Home in New York, his Scrutiny byline and his impressive set of academic credentials opened the doors of literary society, a demiworld about which Podhoretz writes entertainingly and knowledgeably. He sees that society as characterized by its resemblance to a modern, Americanized Jewish family. Though he is quick to note the names of such important gentile members as Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, James Baldwin, and such "kissing cousins" as Robert Lowell and Ralph Ellison, Podhoretz insists that "the term 'Jewish' can be allowed to stand by clear majority rule and by various peculiarities of temper." The term family...
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