Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shocked audiences, but it brought them to the box office in record numbers. Bonnie and Clyde also stirred up a battle among movie critics that seemed to be almost as violent as the film itself. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times was so offended by it that he reviewed it-negatively-three times. "This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste," he wrote. TIME'S review made the mistake of comparing the fictional and real Bonnie and Clyde, a totally irrelevant exercise. Newsweek panned the film, but the following week...
When the New York Review of Books first appeared four years ago, it was given the kind of hearty welcome usually reserved for long-awaited novels. Here at last were intellectuals putting out a review of depth, personality and bite, one that would treat books and their ideas with the seriousness they deserve. To some extent, Review still does just that. But in the past year or so, a distinct change has come over the tabloid-sized bimonthly...
...Review now runs fewer, if longer, book reviews, and devotes much of its space to New Left political commentary. Back in 1963, for example, a book review by Marcus Raskin persuasively rebutted those members of the military establishment who urged a continuing accumulation of nuclear weapons. Raskin's case was all the more convincing because it was coolly and rationally made. Rationality was not in evidence in the latest issue of the Review when Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at M.I.T., offered his comment on the military establishment. Rehashing the recent Washington Peace March, he called the Pentagon the "most...
Demand for Demolition. This change in tone has been accompanied by a shift in reviewers. Some of the most perceptive writers - Sociologists Lewis Coser and Nathan Glazer, Economist Oscar Gass - are no longer contributing to the Review. Space is now filled by such New Left Partisans as Paul Goodman, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Andrew Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They...
What has particularly upset Coser and other intellectuals is the Review's response to last summer's urban riots. In a long commentary on the subject, Kopkind wrote that everybody was helpless and society in convulsion. "Liberalism proves hardly more effective than fascism." Belittling Martin Luther King as an "irrelevancy," Kopkind defended the rioters. "Morality, like politics," he wrote, "starts at the barrel...