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...suggested injuries. But this feud also disintegrated in conciliatory mutters and a handshake. So it goes too often. Even the Hatfields and the McCoys are said to be on cordial terms these days. Who knows but that in the dank, unhealthy future lies the collective rapprochement of Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer-all hugging wildly or nodding demurely in disgusting displays of propriety? One can hardly rely on anything...
Dorothie L. Hellman Stanford, Calif...
...Sunday of every Freshman Week, President Horner advises incoming Yardlings to take Hellman's advice and "keep cool but do not freeze." The AWACS telex incident suggests that she might do well to add "Look before you leap" to her repertoire of useful maxims. Advocacy in the interests of raising the level of public debate befits a University president well But posturing in the absence of expertise does no one any good...
...greatest concern in the disagreement with Miss Hellman, Mrs. Trilling maintains, is historical accuracy in our knowledge of the McCarthy period. "I don't think that in Miss Hellman's lifetime most people are going to be able to deal with it. Perhaps we'll just have to wait. And then people will go to the records and they'll see what's true and what isn't true...
...takes exception to the Hellman memoir. "A very great accomplishment of fictionalization," she calls it. In particular, she points to Miss Hellman's great distinction between taking the First and Fifth Amendments before the House Un-American Activities Committee, finding the First preferable because it rejects the very right of the committee to ask its questions. Mrs. Trilling says that from reading Miss Hellman's book, it sounds as if she actually pled the First Amendment. In fact, what she did was offer to plead the First, Trilling says, and when the committee refused to accept it, pled the Fifth...