Word: podhoretzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norman Podhoretz has called Shorris theory "garbage." Not surprisingly. Podhoretz is one of the six figures Shorris names in the book as the "half dozen middle-aged former leftists who led the garrulous conversion" to neoconservatism. The others are Harvard professors Nathan Glazer and Daniel Bell. Irving Kristol, Midge Decter, and Sidney Hook Shorris concedes that Bell deserves credit for sacrificing his standing among leading neoconservatives because he would not surrender his Jewish ethics for "vulgarity...
...dismay about Reagan among Reaganites brought an ill-assorted two dozen Some them together for a meeting a week before Haig's resignation. Some were writers and polemicists of standing, including Michael Novak, Irving Kristol and as Podhoretz; some edit obscure, cranky magazines that posture as if they them armies of followers; others have enough name recognition to get themselves onto talk shows on an off night. Richard Viguerie, whose computers contain the hottest list of right-wing fat cats, was there; so was Terry Dolan, who raises hours for commercials against candidates on his hit list. After five...
...fast. "Not true," said Podhoretz. Kristol, the neoconservative editor wrote Haig a similar disavowal. George F. Will, who had been invited but declined, later chided the New York-based Kristol for not knowing-as those who live in Washington quick ly learn - which invitations to avoid. Will steers clear of conservative groupies and styles himself a Tory- which is fine if he remembers that Tory originally referred to an outlaw Irish highway robber...
...consider Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine. Early in May, in a New York Times Magazine article titled "The Neo-Conservative Anguish over Reagan's Foreign Policy," Podhoretz wrote lengthily that this "movement of dissident intellectuals," was admittedly "a minority within a minority." But that was as intellectual as Podhoretz was going to be. Without their skill in intellectual combat, he suggested, Reagan probably would not have won over the traditional Democratic constituencies "whose support swept him into the White House." Neoconservatives had been counting on Reagan to reverse "the decline of American power": nevertheless, after looking at other possible...
They also treasure access to power or aspire to it. Reagan likes to stay in amiable touch and knows that White House dinner invitations are ego enhancing. After the Times article appeared, he telephoned Podhoretz, agreeing with much of his argument but pleading necessity for his own tactics. He sent Will the speech he was going to deliver to the English Parliament, asking advice; Will thought it "ghastly" and wrote another; Reagan used a third version with borrowings from Will...