Word: gerhardi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Refusing to answer, Snow found plenty of defenders. Author William Gerhardi called Leavis "the Himmler of Literature," Dame Edith Sitwell suggested that Leavis was jealous of Snow's fame, and Lord Boothby (former rector of St. Andrews) wrote in the Spectator: "There are plenty of beetles in Cambridge. But, without doubt, Dr. Leavis has now qualified for the post of Chief Beetle." Yet, although one critic called Snow's novels "intellectual soap opera," few discussed Leavis' basic concern, the tendency of technology to suffocate humanities...