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Lionel Abel, 73, is an essayist and playwright, and the latest veteran of New York City's old literary left to publish his memoirs. Other recent recollections of this once exclusive and fractious fraternity include Irving Howe's A Margin of Hope and William Barrett's The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals. They were, in Critic Harold Rosenberg's memorable phrase, "the herd of independent minds," part of the theory class that dominated political and cultural debate from the '30s through the '50s. Although deaths, dispersions and change have greatly reduced the group...
...Margin of Hope, Howe describes Abel as "a sort of freelance guerrilla ready to take on all comers." The Intellectual Follies is not as combative as this statement leads one to expect. The narrative adheres loosely to a chronology. Abel, son of a Niagara Falls rabbi, goes to Greenwich Village in 1929 to begin his literary venture. The Depression finds him there, receiving a weekly check from a federally sponsored writers' program. Many of the artists and litterateurs of the period had little affection for the hand that fed them; Abel notes with a twinkle that he stayed home...
Hardly anyone interviewed said they expected the Minnesotan to win, but they said they were extremely surprised by the lopsided margin for President Reagan. "I expected Massachusetts and Boston to vote the way they did, but I was disappointed at the rest of the country," said Patricia Garrety, an Allston resident...
...Gordon J. Humphrey (R-N.H.) benefited perhaps more than any other candidate from the Reagan coattail effect, winning reelection by a 15-point margin over five-term Democratic Rep. Norman E. D'Amours...
While the Democrats seemed unlikely to regain an outright majority in the Senate, which they lost four years ago, they hope to reduce the G.O.P. margin from its present ten seats to as few as one. In the House, the Democrats currently have a 99-seat margin, and Republicans have hopes of whittling that down by as many as 26 seats, which is the number they lost in the 1982 midterm elections. That could re-establish the working majority of Republicans and conservative Democrats that Reagan enjoyed right after his election. It was that ideological marriage of convenience that provided...