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Since Jews have been reluctant to forget the values of their immigrant past, Howe's final section, in which he treats the third and fourth generations as the products of such a rejection, does not work. Explaining the phenomena of the "New York intellectuals"--men like Philip Rahv, Paul Goodman, and Harold Rosenberg--as a group that "sought to declare themselves through a stringency of will, breaking clean from the immediate past and becoming autonomous men of the mind," as Howe does, is simply not convincing. And the description of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin as part of the long...
Died. Philip Rahv, 64, Russian-born literary critic who helped found, in 1934, and edit, until 1969, the leftist literary-political magazine Partisan Review; following a brief illness; in Cambridge, Mass. A professor of English at Brandeis University since 1957, Rahv was the author of three collections of essays, most notably Literature and the Sixth Sense...
Even the literary quarterlies, which once welcomed the dust of the library shelf, have been sparked into conflict. What has most heightened the level of debate in that arena is the appearance of the Philip Rahv-edited Modern Occasions. Formed when Rahv split with much of the rest of the staff of Partisan Review (who had begun to take to Godard, Warhol, and analysis of literature from a pop viewpoint) it is "radical in orientation"--it looks to root issues--yet pledges allegiance neither to the New Left nor the Old. It does not advance the idea that a successful...
...academicism. Its writers deal in an appropriate fashion only with the highest art and best essays, and do not deign to consider what is best in less-consistent realms of endeavor until it is overvalued by the unthinking others. Aside from that of Charles Thomas Samuels, the film writing Rahv has published has been obtuse: theater is totally absent, television not even acknowledged. Serious literary tricksters (Barth, Gass and Barthelme) who are trying to engage in their own kind of criticism of our language and outworn genres, are barely acknowledged...