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...still dogs us almost thirty years after it started. Each time it shows up it invokes terrible bitterness that doesn't seem to subside with time. Even the week before last The New York Times devoted a series of spreads to a bout between two old birds (Lillian Hellman and Diana Trilling) slugging it out for whatever audience still wants to know who acted badly during the bad times...
...Scoundrel Time, Hellman...
Diana Trilling called it censorship; Lillian Hellman called it "unpleasant business." But to some, last week's go around had the look of a literary row par excellence. The clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book...
...brain tumor; in Manhattan. Born in Brooklyn and trained as a C.P.A., Bloomgarden became a business manager for a producer, then started presenting plays on his own. His first success, in 1945, was Deep Are the Roots, a drama about racial conflict. The next year he presented Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest and, in 1949, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He made it a practice to attend every rehearsal of the 50 or so plays he produced...
Only in the intellectual fields of history and fiction has the South been brilliantly represented. But most of the luminaries left the South-Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Lillian Hellman, William Styron went to the North to write. Historians C. Vann Woodward, Julian Boyd and David Donald went to the North to teach. Explains one Deep South professor who moved away ten years ago: "Southern universities were not exactly bastions of freedom. Intellectuals could be severely hassled, and professors who held divergent views had to be either gutsy or masochistic to stay. It's difficult to seek or create...