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...William Saroyan, Clifford Odets, James T. Farrell, Robert Cantwell-who, like Author Kazin, were starting out in the Thirties. An essayist, critic and anthologist (F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Man and His Work; The Portable William Blake), Kazin was born in a Brooklyn slum, the son of an immigrant Polish Jew. He got his first job, as a part-time book reviewer for the New Republic, in the summer of 1934 -"that bottom summer when the first wild wave of hope under the New Deal had receded." It was a thin time, and Kazin recalls that "there were so many...
...scene is present-day Berlin. The hero is Leon Spey, an Austrian-American Jew who has become a professor of literature, and is now the highly paid front man for a U.S. hotel chain. Spey is supposed to organize an opening-day celebration for the hotel outfit's newest aluminum and glass waterhole. He needs the cooperation of the aged and mysterious Prince Schatten, who runs a crumbling resort hotel on the border of East Berlin. The prince is guarded by a sinister doctor and his coldly beautiful blonde daughter. That is the start, but after that Novelist Morton...
During LeRoi Jones's outburst at the Village Vanguard, a small, rotund, bespectacled man, shaken with emotion, arose. "As a Jew and a white man, I hear you," he said. "What do you want us to do? What on earth do you want me to do?" Jones hit a nihilistic bottom. "Do, man? There's nothing you can do!" Nonetheless, the bulk of whites, some consciously forgetting and some consciously remembering their fears after Watts, will continue to do something. But the Negro himself must do as much...
...there is an occasional cloud, it is the thought of how swiftly time has flown since he first arrived, a bedazzled Russian Jew, to greet Paris a full half-century ago. Of the pre-World War I luminaries that were then his contemporaries-the Frenchmen Braque, Matisse, Léger, Rouault, Delaunay, Villon, the Spaniard Juan Gris, the Rumanian Sculptor Brancusi, the Italian Modigliani, the Russians Kandinsky and Soutine-only Picasso, now 83, remains of those who gave the School of Paris its start. Of the two principal survivors, Picasso is the most protean and cerebral, Chagall the most constant...
...PAWNBROKER. A troubled old Jew measures his memories of Nazi terror against the realities of life in Spanish Harlem. Rod Steiger's performance in the title role adds authority to a grim theme...