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...when you see a fascist behind every rock. I know quite a few people who count themselves as politically active, and to a man (or woman) they're all a touch paranoid. But to call Alice Cooper and their ABC-WBCN simulcast a harbinger of creeping facism, as Andrew Kopkind did in last week's Phoenix, strikes me as so much hysterical over-reacting...
...Theological Seminary (where the closing session was held) made the same point. "These tired old conferees are being used to give the illusion that 'intellectuals' are participating in America's absurdity," their sign read and then listed I.F. Stone, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Mary McCarthy, and Andrew Kopkind as likely intellectuals who might have been invited. Brown added Tom Hayden to the list...
Permit me to disentangle myself from the interpretation your reporter has placed on what I told him about my conversation with Andrew Kopkind which led to Mr. Kopkind's withdrawal from a "Politics and the Press" seminar at the Institute of Politics...
Having learned entirely independently that Mr. Kopkind was about to publish an attack on the Institute's Director, Professor Richard Neustadt, in an American journal, I called Mr. Kopkind to ask him when the attack was to appear. We discussed the question of why he hadn't told me about it when I first called him to invite him, he suggested that maybe it would be better if he didn't come up. I told him that without having read his attack I didn't know if the whole affair would be embarrassing all around but that I imagined that...
...article that Mr. Janeway refers to did not say that he had "disinvited" Kopkind, and I regret if this was the way in which he understood it. --David I. Bruck...