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...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, he says, derives from "the fact that these were people who by virtue of their tastes, ideas and general concerns found themselves stuck with...
...white America the black artist has worked largely in a vacuum. He has been able to say, with the protagonist of Ellison's celebrated novel, "I am an invisible man...simply because people refuse to see me." But recently he has begun to be seen, really seen. In October, the City University of New York mounted a stunning and well-attended exhibition of 55 Negro artists spanning a century and a half. This month, a Manhattan gallery has offered a one-man show of 49 paintings by the late Henry O. Tanner--who was, however, able to find freedom...
...than a year after his assassination, was patently concocted for shock. Another cover showed a morose nude jammed, derriere-first, into a garbage can. The article it advertised-"The New American Woman: through at 21" -was so heavily rewritten (seemingly to fit the cover illustration) that Freelance Writer Harlan Ellison refused to let Esquire use his byline. The article described a pseudotypical Los Angeles woman, prone to suicide, sexually jaded, hooked on pills and astrologically obsessed, who was supposed to be the wave of the future for all American women coming into their early...
...other members: former Harvard President James B. Conant, Caltech President Lee A. DuBridge, Author Ralph Ellison, Ambassador to Switzerland John S. Hayes, University of Illinois President David D. Henry, Houston Post Chairman Oveta Culp Hobby, J. C. Kellam (manager of Lyndon Johnson's broadcasting holdings), Polaroid President Edwin H. Land, Reynolds Metals President Joseph H. McConnell, Hampshire College President Franklin Patterson, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, TV Producer Robert (Omnibus) Saudek, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and United Auto Workers' Executive Leonard Woodcock...
...Ralph Ellison, author of invisible Man, will read from a novel now in progress tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Burr Hall, Room...