Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whichever edition you read, Reston's "modest proposal" for equipping the press to deal with a changing society and an increasingly powerful President is a challenge to modern journalism...
...this excellent book. Where the intent is light humor, they succeed modestly; but Lowell and Juvenal are similar in that they frequently intend to repel through the use of humor not light but grim, and Mr. Nolan's attempts to repel only amuse. But one buys the book to read Lowell, and what one reads is surely contemporary poetry of the first rank. After twenty years, this seems for the present generation closer to fact than opinion, though taste in succeeding ones will doubtless fluctuate. For the present. I must make the canned appeal to those faintly interested...
Chance is one of the subtle themes in Starting Out in the Thirties, and it was by chance that Kazin entered the radical writer's community. Riding the subway home from City College one day in June, 1934, Kazin read a review by John Chamberlain, the radical New York Times reviewer, of a book on youth...
...more irksome to Kazin, however, were "those middle-class and doctrinaire radicals who, after graduating from Harvard or Yale in the Twenties, had made it a matter of personal honor to become Marxists, and who now worried in the New Masses whether Proust should be read after the Revolution and why there seemed to be no simple proletarians in the novels of Andre Malraux. "Kazin's irritation with these men is a product of his involvement in the other community--the tenements of Brownsville. Although these middle class radicals may have been socialists, the socialism they espoused seemed more like...
ONCE UPON a time, when the Beatles were still in Liverpool and no one had heard of LSD, Marshall McLuhan was an easy man to like. He could explain everything from Homer to baseball with a single, breathtaking theory. The few who had read him possessed the key to history, politics, art, literature and contemporary society. But now it has all been lost...