Word: podhoretzes
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...given by the Reagan Administration. The implication is clumsy but clear: Nineteen Eighty-Four and its author stand behind the Times's position. But a week or so earlier, the same newspaper's Op-Ed page ran a defense of the Grenada action by Neo-Conservative Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary. And Podhoretz had by then firmly claimed Orwell for his camp of disillusioned liberals: "I believe he [Orwell] would have been a neo-conservative if he were alive today...
...tantalizing, juicy piece of the apocalypse on your dinner plate. Or if you swallowed the articles of what can only charitably be called drivel which Alexander Cockburn published in The Village Voice, you ought to be a rabid anti-Semite. Only a few Martin Peretz, William Safire and Norman Podhoretz among them had the intelligence to announce that the Americans were being snarled in lies. Even today, when the miasma of Sabra and Shatila lingers heavily, few thoughtful people would claim to know what happened--or, for that matter, what is happening in Lebanon...
...eager to consign him to the minors. His career began during the heyday of brilliant U.S. Jewish writing. Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, among others, were the critics' darlings. A sensitive outsider from the sticks did not measure up to prevailing standards. In Commentary, Norman Podhoretz complained, "His short stories ... strike me as all windup and no delivery." Bruised by appraisals like this, Updike eventually turned his hurt feelings to good use: "Out of that unease, I created Henry Bech to show that I was really a Jewish writer also...
...American Jewish community is now split by sickening doubts. Norman Podhoretz, editor of the monthly Commentary, wrote defensively last week that "when Christians murdered Muslims for having murdered Christians, the world immediately began denouncing the Jews who were, at the very worst, indirectly involved." Leaders of major U.S. Jewish organizations pleaded over and over again last week that Israel not be hastily judged guilty of complicity in the massacre. Even so, they went further in dissociating themselves from Begin's policies than they ever had before. Three of the largest organizations, B'nai B'rith, the American...
Though his tone is far angrier than most, Podhoretz is not the only American Jew to fear a revival of anti-Semitism in the wake of the Lebanon invasion. Says Chicago Radio Producer Sher: "After the 1956 war and the other conflicts up to this time, Israelis were the golden boys, even in the minds of people who at home were anti-Semitic toward American Jews. Now the perception is, 'Hey, these guys are bullies.' " Sher fears that hostility toward Jews historically increases during times of economic trouble like that the U.S. is experiencing...