Word: kazin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal scene. The Commentary crowd, including men like Pat Moynihan, recoiled in shock from leftists who extolled the totalitarian "social justice" of a Cuba or a China. To Irving Kristol, 20th century liberalism has become neo-socialism, a creed "more interested in equality than in liberty." Critic Alfred Kazin concludes that liberal and conservative are "fraudulent and intellectually useless terms." Why not, asks another, declare a moratorium on both words, since both have become dulled, "even as insults...
...more than a century, New York's City College has enjoyed the reputation of a top-level school, a proletarian Harvard with such distinguished graduates as Felix Frankfurter, Jonas Salk, Bernard Malamud, Ira Gershwin and Alfred Kazin. In recent years, however, City College and the 19 other institutions that make up the tuition-free City University of New York (CUNY) have found it increasingly difficult to keep up their standards. Reason: a 1969 ruling that opened the doors of the university to any student holding a high-school diploma from New York City's school system, which graduates...
Reaction to the ending of open admissions was furious. Students staged protests and announced plans to file suit against the board of higher education. A CUNY sociologist released a report showing that most of those barred under the new standards would be minority students. Author Kazin, a professor at CUNY'S Hunter College, suggested that more than money was involved in the move to end open admissions. "There is an illiberal strain in the country," he said. "It is a revolt against the masses in New York, against the idea that so many people are allowed...
...ALFRED KAZIN GAVE Updike "an A-plus" for his last novel, calling him "a sociologist of all this new American territory." Updike deserved it--as a chronicler of suburbia he is unsurpassed. But a sociologist is something different from a novelist. He is an onlooker--in Updike's case, a perceptive and entertaining one--and he watches from a safe distance. The artist who stands removed from the scene and the people he describes risks losing a gut sensibility that a sociologist, after...
...Downstairs. Burke was hailed then as savagely realistic. His book has lived on ever since as a kind of eccentric minor classic, a status that has been recognized by Horizon Press, which recently reissued it with an admiring but judicious foreword by a critic of such probity as Alfred Kazin...