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...Senator McCarthy is one of the Senate's few intellectuals and one of its most obvious hypocrites; the two go hand in hand."-Andrew Kopkind...
...tone has been accompanied by a shift in reviewers. Some of the most perceptive writers - Sociologists Lewis Coser and Nathan Glazer, Economist Oscar Gass - are no longer contributing to the Review. Space is now filled by such New Left Partisans as Paul Goodman, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Andrew Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They kept telling me to sharpen...
What has particularly upset Coser and other intellectuals is the Review's response to last summer's urban riots. In a long commentary on the subject, Kopkind wrote that everybody was helpless and society in convulsion. "Liberalism proves hardly more effective than fascism." Belittling Martin Luther King as an "irrelevancy," Kopkind defended the rioters. "Morality, like politics," he wrote, "starts at the barrel...
...special problems of doing a story about a writer were also impressed on Correspondent Andrew Kopkind, who did a major part of the reporting. "Like many people who write for a living," said Kopkind, "Cheever doesn't really like to talk about himself but about other people. When I would say, 'Now we really must talk about you,' he would leap up and say something like 'Let's go tobogganing.' " For Artist Henry Koerner, who painted Cheever in the room where he works, the assignment had no more than the usual subjective aspects. Koerner...
...world is to follow Conrad Hilton about. This is what Andy Kopkind of our Los Angeles bureau has been doing in recent weeks: interviewing his subject on planes, watching him delightedly go through the inevitable ceremonies-a "topping off" in Montreal, hotel openings in London and Rotterdam, groundbreakings in Brussels and Paris-and discovering the precarious world of the newly built. At the London Hilton, Kopkind suffered through a 15-minute elevator ride with Hilton, while the elevator stopped at 25 floors. Something had gone wrong with the mechanism, and once started in its cycle, the elevator had a mind...