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...Norman Podhoretz, Commentary's editor, argued even more strongly that political trends find their source in academic debate...
...argument would be that when some great event, or some feeling reaches a critical mass, the climate of opinion will not change unless there is a structure of ideas to legitimize new ideas, to make them thinkable and sayable," Podhoretz said...
...Podhoretz voiced his approval of recentpolitical trends. "We are seeing something verycheerful--an attempt to undo the damage of thepolicies of the Left going back to the New Deal,"he said...
STEPPING DOWN. NORMAN PODHORETZ, 65, editor and writer; as the editor in chief of Commentary; in New York City. During his 35-year stewardship, Podhoretz transformed the Jewish monthly from a voice of liberal social concern to a promoter of hard-line anti-Sovietism abroad and a basher of all things leftish and countercultural at home. The changes mirrored Podhoretz's own political evolution as one of the most influential-and certainly the most inescapable-of neoconservatives...
...pair easily keep pace with their literary friends. McCarthy finds Charles Reich (The Greening of America) "smarmily loving" and feminist Germaine Greer "an absurd Australian giantess." Not to be outdone, Arendt declares Margaret Mead "a monster" and Vladimir Nabokov "an intelligent show-off." Her 1957 take on Norman Podhoretz, critic, editor and later author of the confessional memoir Making It: "one of these bright youngsters with bright hopes for a nice career." Only three years later, it is "little Podhoretz, already soooo 'tired' like the proverbial Jewish waiter...