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BEST BOY Directed by Ira Wohl...
...Wohl's stated aim is to "shed light on the politics of early twentieth century intellectuals." In doing so, he skips such intellectuals as T.S. Eliot, Erich Remarque and American expatriates like Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway, who had both a political and intellectual vision. The negligence of Eliot is particularly blatant, especially in contrast to Wohl's paeons to the inferior poetry of Brooke and Sassoon...
THEIR myth embraces history and society. Robert Wohl's history embraces only itself. Wohl waits until the last chapter to breeze quickly over such vital pre-war factors as growing industrialization and urbanization. There is not even a discussion of the intellectuals who contemplated the human crises this modern world caused--no mention of J. Alfred Prufrock and the isolation and loneliness that Eliot detailed...
...paragraph--again at the last chapter--Wohl deals with the "revolutionary changes in European political and social structure" that occurred in the early twentieth century. Socialism is tritely termed the "great social and political movement of the day." Wohl tosses in a discussion of social Darwinism, fascism, and nihilism; but there is no comprehensive examination of the impact of these trends on the intellectual climate...
...Wohl's book offers no insights, only frustrations. Occasional insightful analyses of the ideas of intelligent men are buried in philanderings over inferior thinkers. These analyses are further dimmed by a lack of any type of social or historical perspective. Wohl's entire premise is wrong, for the myth he tries to rescue the generation from is, in fact, the true intellectual portrait of the Generation...