Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many unhappy intellectuals, the quick answer is that McCarthy failed in the end, that reformers just nibble at things, and that America needs a good revolution to save itself. In fact, such pessimism may be rather premature. Today, important thinking about moral synthesis is coming from the very scientific intellectuals whom literary intellectuals decry. It was morally sensitive scientists who helped inspire the nuclear-test-ban treaty, and they also lead the most informed debate on the ABM program. In addition, an entire new generation of scientific intellectuals is deeply concerned about ecology and environment-preoccupations that far transcend...
...Kunen is one of the student radicals who occupied the president's office at Columbia University last spring; his accounts at the time made fascinating reading in the Atlantic and New York magazines. Strawberry Statement covers much of the same ground but goes beyond Columbia. It is, in fact, the meandering but often perceptive journal of a young rebel with a sense of humor...
...skillfully produced by WOR's Stanley Friedman, Frederickson turns out to be as telegenic as Kildare or Casey. Greeting home viewers and a studio panel of nine with a cheery "Hello, smokers," he does not order them to stop smoking in the first program. As a matter of fact, he tells them to keep it up. The catch: they must wrap a sheet of paper and two rubber bands around their cigarette packs to make taking out a cigarette complicated. Frederickson suggests that whenever his listeners unwrap, they also log the hour, their activity and mood at the time...
...those tormenting Malamud women whose specialty is interrupted coition. The woman's homosexual husband, Beppo, interrupts this time to seduce Fidelman from his wife -and from art. Beppo is a truly queer dens ex machina; yet Malamud clearly intends him for the role. It is Beppo, in fact, who finally gives Fidelman the word on his "painter's progress": "After twenty years if the rooster hasn't crowed she should know she's a hen." And it is Beppo who points instructively to the future: "If you can't invent art, invent life...
...Susan Sontag did not exist, the New York Review of Books might have had to invent her. One moment, in fact, not very long ago she did not exist. The next moment she was everywhere-the new darling of the literary set. Norman Podhoretz, author of Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared...