Word: hartz
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...fancy resume credit, but a new means of understanding himself and his most closely held beliefs. To his surprise, he discovered fewer real political divisions in American history than he had assumed existed. His interpretations rely heavily on theories first popularized in the mid-1950s by Louis Hartz and other members of the so-called "consensus school" of American history: "I really think political philosophy went out with Jackson, or sometime in that era. When industrialism imposed upon us a new set of ground rules, no longer could we talk about truly laissez-faire economics versus whether we were going...
ROTHMAN AND LICHTER gamely confront the historiographical school which catalogues the New Left as merely the peak of some relentless sine curve on a cycle of generational conflict or reformist sentiment. The authors emphasize the restraints on radicalism in America, invoking historian Louis Hartz's conception of a culture which assumes liberalism as a civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never...
...help of a walker, left San Francisco General Hospital. Though her longtime friend Actress Janet Gaynor remains in stable condition from the accident, Martin was adamant that the show go on-in this case, Over Easy, the PBS-TV program for older Americans that she co-hosts with Jim Hartz. With her two broken ribs and fractured pelvis on a slow mend, she taped her first postaccident show (which began airing last week). "I have to walk two blocks a day," says Martin. "Right now, though, I just can't lift my darned foot. I go up and down...
DIED. Max Stern, 83, founder and board chairman of Hartz Mountain Corp., which he made into the world's largest manufacturer of pet foods and supplies; in New York City. Stern, a German immigrant, arrived in the U.S. in 1926 with 2,100 singing canaries. He quickly sold the birds, but decided that greater profits lay in marketing birdseed. The company, founded in 1932, grew under his leadership until it had annual sales of $150 million and offered more than 1,200 pet-related products. A deeply religious man, Stern gave away millions in philanthropy to Jewish American education...