Word: podhoretzes
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Kerouac himself describes a deflant search for good times in an essay. The Roaming Beatniks. The Beats' critics get a word in, too--from the granted condescension of Bostonian poet John Ciardi to the quasi-intellectual sneering of Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz. And New York Times accounts of Beat revelry round out the assortment of perspectives...
...point here is not to second-guest the Class of 1970, but to suggest the ways in which Harvard works to shut us from responsibility for our politics. This trend cuts both ways. The little Podhoretz's in Eliot House today telling us to protect our "interests" in Central America would be singing a different tune were they getting draft notices in the mail next week rather than invitations to work for Morgan Stanley. Happily we don't have to make the life and death choices Fallows had to make, but indications are that we still haven't learned...
...effect in print is not muddle, but barbed and often authoritative reasoning. Says Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz: "New Republic has become indispensable for anyone seriously interested in the climate of political opinion." Syndicated Columnist George Will describes the magazine's writers, particularly Essayist Charles Krauthammer (who also contributes Essays to TIME), as among the country's most discerning. Michael Kinsley, 33, has made the magazine's "TRB" column an eccentric but successful blend of sardonic humor and compassion for some unlikely subjects, including Michael Jackson and lottery-ticket buyers. The magazine is less beloved by some...
...matter of his reinforcing it." In describing Reagan's accomplishment, observers seem drawn to oceanic metaphors. "Ronald Reagan is riding a crest," suggests Duke University Vice Chancellor Joel Fleishman, "the crest of a phenomenon he did not wholly create, but which he exploits." Neoconservative Editor Norman Podhoretz agrees: "It's a wave that's been building, and Reagan has been appealing to it. It's a matter of the man meeting the moment...
Were Jackson as magnanimous as he expects others to be, he would not stoop to the level of "Jews against Jackson" or Commentary's rabid Norman Podhoretz. He would not bluster for two weeks about being "bounded by members of the Jewish community" or complain about press persecution. As one who is the victim of many such off-color remarks, he should understand how and why people are insulted...