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...LAST JEW IN AMERICA by Leslie Fiedler. 191 pages. Stein...
August 2: Leslie Fiedler, the American critic of the novel, who will speak on "Realism: A Mythological Approach...
...somewhat, it is possible to assess the phenomenon more calmly. LSD is certainly not the means of instant, universal bliss that its most extreme and most ludicrous proponents make it out to be. Nor is it an indication of diabolical decadence or proof that, as Critic Leslie Fiedler predicted some time ago, the U.S. is changing from a "whisky culture to a drug culture." But LSD is considerably more than a mere...
...sought out strong individual opinion and refused to tout any political line. In the 1950s, Commentary became a leading exponent of so-called "liberal revisionism," an attempt to make liberal thought less dogmatic, more aware of life's evils, including Communism. In a searching revisionist essay, Critic Leslie Fiedler chided fellow liberals for flocking so thoughtlessly to the defense of Alger Hiss. "Certainly a generation was on trial with Hiss," he wrote, "on trial not, it must be noticed, for having struggled toward a better world, but for having substituted sentimentality for intelligence in that struggle...
...Heller, the change to basic black was not made basically for laughs. "I am not using humor as a goal, but as a means to a goal," he says. "The ultimate effect is not frivolity but bitter pessimism." As Critic Leslie Fiedler sees it: "Black humor fits anyone worth reading today. It's the only valid contemporary work." Nonetheless, the strongest critics of blackness are found among humorists, many of whom believe that humor that does not make people laugh is not humor at all. Some of the critics, however, confuse black humor with sick humor, whose chief practitioner...