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...York Post Columnist Max Lerner, the assassination indicates that the "irregular violence" of the American past may be giving way to ideological violence. Though the politics of Europe has always been "heavily ideological," says Lerner, U.S. politics has been pragmatic and personal. "That is now changing. There are passionate isms sweeping the ghettos and the university campuses. Unfortunately, the three traumatic killings of the last five years, which should have taught us how bitter is the fruit of the poisoned tree of ideological passions, do not seem to have carried their lesson home...
STEPHEN D. LERNER...
...Grimké Sisters from South Carolina by Gerda Lerner...
...last years he was wealthy, thanks to royalties derived from the Lerner-Loewe musical Camelot. He was also troubled, his biographer reports, by a hopeless and uncontrollable passion for a young boy. He visited Florence in 1963 and is recalled by some members of the British colony there as a boozy windbag who told his stories too many times. In 1964, only 57 but seeming old and trembling in his anatomies, he died on shipboard after a U.S. lecture tour. On his tombstone, he is described as an author "who from a troubled heart delighted others, loving and praising this...
...vaguely funny article in last month's Holiday, Kahn described himself as a look-alike of Max Lerner if his hair is short, and a look-alike of Norman Mailer if his hair is long. He is a short man with a deep voice sometimes approaching a whisper. His features are cramped into the lower half of his face, leaving the upper half all forehead. When he interviewed me at dinner a few months ago, he smiled often, and his conversation was an anecdotal as his profile-writing. Keeping his notebook far over to the right of the table...