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...leaders, meeting in Claverly, decided that to harbor another resister was inadvisable at this time. "The political points of sanctuary have not yet been made clear," Michael Kazin '70, one of the leaders, said last night...
...would be another Dow," Kazin said. "In the end we would be dealing with punishment and the free speech issue instead of with the real issues of resistance...
...Michael Kazin, a sophomore in SDS, puts it this way, "What they want is welfarism at home and imperialism abroad. That's very nice but it just won't work. They're willing to keep all the defense money intact just so they can get George Meany on their side...
John Crowe Ransom says that Jarrell wore a "triple crown"-"a pure Pity, an embracing Weltschmerz, and a wry ironic Wit." The pity sometimes seemed absent from his own reviews. Alfred Kazin recalls a sideswipe in which Jarrell wrote that some crypto poet's work had "hidden treasures," but that finding them was "like looking for the gold in sea water." This sort of wit provided the sparkle to his otherwise brackish novel, Pictures from an Institution...
...people whose beliefs grew out of that daily struggle, no matter where it took place, that Kazin reserves his admiration. While Kazin's biases and prejudices are interesting in trying to understand the complexities that plagued American intellectuals in the '30's, they are not nearly so interesting as the tone of tentativeness in which Starting Out In The Thirties is wrapped...