Word: podhoretzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feingolds have little aptitude for it. Irving Howe, Susan Sontag, Alfred Kazin, Leslie Fiedler, Norman Podhoretz, Elizabeth Hardwick, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Gates, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kosinski and Truman Capote do not come to their party. They miss quite a scene. Among the uncelebrated guests is a Holocaust survivor who literally levitates the living room with horror stories. Lucy also rises to the occasion with a Christian-pagan vision rooted in agriculture, bacchanalia and fertility symbols. The reader is left suspended with images of unreachable men locked in "the glory of their martyrdom...
...Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting the self: Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz's autobiographical book Making It. Wrote Podhoretz: "I looked upon those who possessed ... fame, and I liked what I saw; I measured myself against them, and I did not fall short...
TIME: "You were quoted as having said that you had read Norman Podhoretz's The Present Danger and thought it was a very important book. Is that accurate? Did you admire that book when it came...
Commentary (circ. 50,000). A publication sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, founded in 1945, this intellectual monthly has led at least three lives. It was liberal in the mid-'60s, then radical in the late-'60s. Since 1970, under Editor Norman Podhoretz, Commentary has espoused many conservative ideals such as a stronger defense posture and a permanent American military presence in the Persian Gulf...