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...GEORGE Lichtheim has collected a number of his essays and reviews, composed over the last four years for various periodicals, added a short introduction, and published the lot under the too-dramatic title, The Concept of Ideology...
...stubborn sense of responsibility. All this is amply evident in the new Commentary Reader, edited by Norman Podhoretz (Atheneum; $12.50), a selection of some of the magazine's best articles written by some of the era's shrewdest minds: Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, George Lichtheim, Daniel Bell. The book also contains a sampling of Commentary short stories (Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Wallace Markfield), which invariably carry a social message...
...also had much to say about Ghana. George Lichtheim recently criticized O'Brien in the letters column of the New York Review of Books for not taking enough of a stand against Nkrumah. But if there was ever any foundation to this criticism, it became awfully weak after O'Brien's remarks last week...
...majority of the professors interviewed last week also disagreed with Lichtheim's contention that editorial biases frequently influence the Times' foreign coverage. Editorial biases, explained Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, are "built-in limitations that I would expect to find in any newspaper, and the Times seems to have struck a pretty good balance...
...academic community, said Safran, has failed to provide the broader view of sociological and political movements that would guide the reporter of day to day events in more interpretive coverage. "I challenge Mr. Lichtheim to mention five books that would provide guidance to an intelligent Times reporter in Latin America," Safran said...