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...heart of the issue is three articles on radicalism. Allan Y. Graubard, a tutor in Social Studies, offers a 22-page de-bunking of Marcuse's One Dimensional Man; Franz Bloom '68 submits a review of Moore's Social Origins of Totalitarianism and Democracy, and Michael Walzer, Associate Professor of Government, writes on the Puritan interpretation of the Exodus. Several excellent essays on religious radicalism, three brief book reviews, and a few pages of generally laborious poetry complete the issue...
...Graubard's attack on Marcuse is, if anything, too potent...
...Graubard's book review is long, dull, and un-illuminating; Mr. Saperstein's is short and provocative. The scholarly articles--one on Ethiopian Judaism, the other concerning early Jewish views of the philosophy of music--are best left to the scholars...
...Carr's What Is History?, to be sure, never was Jewish property at all, but Allen Y. Graubard's review of the book is nevertheless the best piece of work in the issue. H. R. Trevor-Roper has already pointed out the major shortcomings of Carr's approach to history at great and devastating length in his own review of the book, but most of the points are very much worth making again, and Mr. Graubard by concentrating his fire on Carr's bandwagon dictum (that the historian is only successful who writes about and believes in the winning side...
...terribly funny all the same. John Casey, on the other hand, clogged the flow of mirth, especially in the opening scene. His timing lacked the elegance needed for Orsino's opening speech; however, he gained assurance with time, and achieved a certain nobility by the end. Allen Graubard (Fabian) was the only serious flaw among the principals; he spoke awkwardly and without much awareness of the show's airy pace and style...