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MAKING IT by Norman Podhoretz. 360 pages. Random House...
...environment itself is arranged as a teaching machine," he lectured delphically. "The author is going to be engaged in programming the teaching machine." McLuhan unsettled the writers further with a slogan: "Artists should go to the control tower, not the ivory tower." But they all relaxed when Critic Norman Podhoretz cracked that he was having trouble getting his electronic earphones to work during translations. "Mr. McLuhan couldn't get his to work either," he gibed...
...commonplace in Commentary, one of the leading intellectual publications in the U.S. Since its founding in 1945, the monthly magazine has consistently displayed a rigorous self-analysis, a passion for ideas, a stubborn sense of responsibility. All this is amply evident in the new Commentary Reader, edited by Norman Podhoretz (Atheneum; $12.50), a selection of some of the magazine's best articles written by some of the era's shrewdest minds: Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, George Lichtheim, Daniel Bell. The book also contains a sampling of Commentary short stories (Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Wallace Markfield), which...
When Cohen died in 1959, he was replaced by Norman Podhoretz, who, at 30, was already a well-known literary critic. Podhoretz eliminated anti-Communist articles from Commentary and added some astringent social criticism of the U.S. He was also among the first to publish the writings of the New Left. But he soon grew disenchanted; today he believes that the New Left of the '60s is as misled about Communist totalitarianism as was the Old Left of the '30s. In turn, New Leftists pay him the compliment of calling him a "fink...
Style & Substance. Still operating modestly out of a small Manhattan office with only two assistant editors, Podhoretz commissions most articles himself, although some 5,000 unsolicited manuscripts arrive every year. Over its two decades, Commentary's price per issue has grown from 400 to 750, and its circulation has gradually risen from 14,000 to 57,000. Its annual deficit has been cut from $100,000 in 1963 to $30,000 this year. By the end of 1967, Podhoretz expects to break even. Aimed originally at New York's intellectual community, Commentary now reaches across the country...