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Lets dispose of these three "articles" first and get on to the more significant fare. The magazine would be better without them, though I think I see why they were included. Saul Ginsberg's "New Christians" and David Flusser's "The Schema on the Jews and the Church" says little that is worth saying in the Harvard community, even in the Harvard Jewish community. But Harvard students did the translating, and the Hillel Society understandably wishes to encourage such efforts. Publishing should be sufficient encouragement; reading is unnecessary. "The New Christians" will interest few except avid scholars of Russian history...
...Saul Bellow has called him "one of the very best writers of his generation." He has won Guggenheim and Houghton Mifflin fellowships, and is currently living in Greece on a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Critics found his earlier books, The Cat Man (about circus life) and The Circle Home (about boxing), flat on characterization and rickety on plot, but praised him as a stylist. The Peacock's Tail is the story of a youne New Yorker's trials after he loses his girl Sandy to a Jewish rival. He becomes a refugee...
Honor & Respect. Two authors who had been invited, John Hersey and Saul Bellow, publicly agreed with the criticism of Johnson's foreign policies but said they would attend the festival...
...Breed. What the U.S. has today is a "new breed" of Jew "who is proud of his Jewishness even when he is vague in his knowledge and definition of what Judaism means to him" -the man who buys Saul Bellow's Herzog and "wants his children to know more about his tradition." The American Jew, said Kelman, has largely abandoned fundamentalism for ecumenism; while he wants more rabbis and religious schools, he also has "reverence for the integrity of those who hold different beliefs and he does not look on those who differ from him as wicked or deficient...
John Hersey and Saul Bellow, two other writers who were asked to read their works at the arts festival, voiced strong disagreement with the Administration's foreign policy but said that they would appear. Lowell said last night that "there is some confusion in most people's minds about what accepting an invitation to an arts festival means." Asked what acceptance does mean, he replied "It's not clear...