Word: hertzberg
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Because the correct moral position on issues such as segregation and the Vietnam War was so overwhelming and obvious to them, activists of the '60s could "throw themselves into the events with abandon," according to Hendrik Hertzberg '65 of the New Republic...
...Hertzberg said institutions that from the basis for today's activism were either nonexistent or viewed with skepticism by students 25 years...
...fact, Sullivan's appointment does indicate a subtle but significant change. Like Peretz, both Kinsley and the most recent editor, former Carter speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg, had their intellectual roots in old-fashioned liberalism. Even as they and their colleagues criticized the outworn dogmas of the Left, they conveyed anguish about the future of liberalism and the Democratic Party. Though his views on social issues are eclectic, Sullivan is no lapsed liberal. Instead he is a Young-Turk Tory not given to twinges of regret over liberalism's demise...
Sullivan's ascension was something of a surprise. Peretz announced one day nearly a year ago that Sullivan was the new deputy to Hertzberg. His sudden rise -- as well as his penchant for stories on such subjects as the ins and outs of black conservatism -- seemed to mark the culmination of Peretz's own political evolution...
...first prominent dissenters was Arthur Hertzberg, professor of religion at Dartmouth College. When Menachem Begin came to power in 1977, says Hertzberg, American Jews "tried to pretend to themselves that the Likud were a bunch of tough-minded businessmen like their uncles who asked for the maximum price and would settle eventually for something less -- but higher than they'd get otherwise." But after years of no progress toward settling the Palestinian question, a more disturbing realization has set in. Says Hertzberg: "Now we are facing the fact that these Likud fellows -- Begin and Shamir and ((Ariel)) Sharon and their...