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...AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL ELITE by CHARLES KADUSHIN 389 pages. Little, Brown...
Four years ago, Columbia Sociologist Charles Kadushin and a fleet of researchers decided to find out. On the arbitrary and probably wrongheaded assumption that an intellectual is a generalist who writes literary or social criticism, Kadushin eliminated the hard scientists, theoretical physicists and mathematicians. He narrowed his field to 8,000 humanists and social scientists from leading schools who had contributed articles from 1964 to 1968 to the top 22 intellectual journals...
...appear: The New Yorker's film reviewer Pauline Kael, who is in the third group, a fact that may curl the lip of New York magazine's theater critic John Simon, who just squeaked into the fourth and lowest category. Half of the chosen live within what Kadushin calls "lunch distance" of New York -a 50-mile limit he considers convenient for day trips to the city. Wherever they live, these intellectuals are well paid (average income: $35,000 a year). They write most frequently in such magazines as Partisan Review, the New Republic, Commentary, Dissent...
Kissinger Syndrome. The direct power of Kadushin's intellectuals seems limited mainly to the ability to enhance or diminish each other's reputations. It is a power exercised largely through their journals, around which loose groups or cliques form, and it is diminished by the fact that intellectuals who take high jobs in Washington tend to lose their credentials temporarily. The most obvious case is Henry Kissinger. His name is nowhere on the official list, an omission that Kadushin informally corrects by noting that Kissinger is "a leading American intellectual." The Kissinger syndrome may also explain the absence...
...weekly worship services, discussion groups, service projects, production of plays, social functions, and retreats, B'nal B'rith Hillel Foundation, for instance, conducts special freshman receptions, dinners, and arts and crafts groups, as well as weekly forums, and periodic retreats under the leadership of Rabbis Maurice Zigmond and Phineas Kadushin. Although these groups have no official connection with the University, they work with it closely through the United Ministry to Students...