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Syndicated Columnist Max Lerner, in a sternly critical review in a stronghold of Democratic liberalism, the New Republic, complains that Schell's logic could be used to justify "certain surrender [through] unilateral disarmament by the West." The New York Times editorial page, another traditionally liberal forum, has faulted Schell for utopianism. "The rest of us," the paper notes, "are left in the real world, stuck with the only available alternative to catastrophe. Deterrence it will have to be." Times Book Critic John Leonard, a one-time liberal activist on issues ranging from the Viet Nam War to the Helsinki...
...report of the Russian Revolution, be "published in millions of copies and translated into all languages." Max Eastman said, "He had a reckless equilibrium in walking life's tightropes"; Walter Lippmann called him "one of the intractables," possessed with "an inordinate desire to be arrested." Max Lerner praised his "Faustian thirst for life"; Upton Sinclair dismissed him as a "playboy of the social revolution." Journalist and playwright, Harvard cheerleader and Moscow radical, consciousness-and hellraiser, Reed embraced contradictions as he ran like an Ivy League halfback through an archetypal American life-full, frustrated, tragically short. He knew everybody...
...even when she was busy with Fisher she was seeking other trophies, according to Kelley's complete but rather mean-spirited account (Simon & Schuster; $14.95). Perhaps the oddest head on Taylor's wall is that of Columnist Max Lerner. A professor of American civilization at Brandeis University and the distinguished author of numerous heavy tomes, Lerner was 57 when they began their romance. He was clearly nattered out of his Ph.D.s by finding that he was attractive to a creature like Taylor-"She said I was her intellectual Mike Todd," he brags to Kelley-and the most amusing...
Studs Longian (1960) d. Irving Lerner...
...Americans have been left out. Some who tried to start out in the '70s began to suspect that they were operating under some vast cultural misunderstanding. In a way, they were. Owning a house-a home, "the most lyrical of American symbols," Max Lerner once called it-began generations ago as one of the most basic aspirations. It was merely a hope then, not a sure thing. But some time during the long suburban idyll of the postwar years, the idea of owning a house came to harden into a kind of entitlement, a right, an inevitability. The baby...