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...insensitive conservative. Feminist discontent about the women in his fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler's Planet, and in March, critic Alfred Kazin wrote in the New Yorker that "my heart sank when I heard that Bellow once asked, 'Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans...
...tried to figure out a little bit about how the world works, how political change happens, if it ever does," he says "I don't think it's a coincidence that I'm a law professor and that Michael [Kazin '70, then the chair of SDS] is a history professor...
...says Kazin asked him to chair the meeting because he stayed clear of the partisan squabbles that threatened to break SDS into ideological factions...
...generational protest on the onehand--protest against a bureaucratic society, ofthe uniformity coming out of the '50s," saysMichael Kazin '70, the former co-chair od SDS atHarvard...
Students at the time say they felt they couldliterally change the world. Kazin says theprotesters acted according to deep moral beliefs.Hylands calls then philosophers...