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...complex novel. The burdens of the author's previous fictions are given full weight. The narrative path is steep, circuitous and mined with disease and humiliations. The voices of third and first persons mingle, and time runs in either direction. In the present, a terminal patient named Judith Glazer beleaguers family and friends with hostile honesty and acrid humor: "Neither will I be wired to any of those medical busy-boxes to extend for one damned minute what only a fool would call my life. If Jesus wants me He can have me. To tell you the truth...
Elkin, who suffers from a form of multiple sclerosis, has not received the recognition or income of lesser colleagues, desipite his overflow of talent and energy. So it is not difficult to see Glazer's trials and Messenger's messages as a form of special pleading. Fortunately, these episodes are not the whole story, merely parts of an epic that embraces 1,000 years of second-string citizenship. The novel's heroes are all named George Mills, from the Greatest Grandfather, an 11th century Northumbrian stableboy, to a furniture mover in East St. Louis...
Norman Podhoretz has called Shorris theory "garbage." Not surprisingly. Podhoretz is one of the six figures Shorris names in the book as the "half dozen middle-aged former leftists who led the garrulous conversion" to neoconservatism. The others are Harvard professors Nathan Glazer and Daniel Bell. Irving Kristol, Midge Decter, and Sidney Hook Shorris concedes that Bell deserves credit for sacrificing his standing among leading neoconservatives because he would not surrender his Jewish ethics for "vulgarity...
...Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure will also testify before the committee. Glazer was unavailable for comment
Reminiscences of City College: Gateway to America--Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer; H-R Hillel, 74 Mt. Auburn...