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HERE AT THE NEW YORKER...
...matter: is the present-day working class potentially revolutionary or only potentially liberal? Ultimately, Levison says liberal in the short run and perhaps socialist and revolutionary in the long run. This point is significant, because Levison is a McGovern liberal, and through the book's serialization in The New Yorker it might come to have high currency among the middle-class Left. As a whole. Levison attempts to provide the basis for a worker-affluent liberal alliance; his advocacy of socialism as the completion of American democracy shows the response of a good portion of the liberal intellectuals presently confronted...
...YORKER is distinguished above all by plain good writing; but, more than that, especially in the "casuals" and "Talk pieces" that appear in the front of the magazine, the writing shows a distinctive humor, low-key and urbane, that seems to float effortlessly above all that is encumbered and earth-bound. "How easy I have found it," Gill writes, "to rush pell-mell through the world, playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me, and colliding with good times at every turn." It's as if he has lived his life in New Yorker style, a life...
...RELIEF when Gill returns to the perfunctories of who he married and where they lived and how much they made when they resold the place; and then back to the interesting idiosyncrasies of New Yorker writers and artists. Gill is comfortable with a voice that he has smoothed and polished for 40 years, and there are things that can't be said without a rough edge that he has lost. (It is a tribute to Gill's mastery of New Yorker style that the seams don't show when part of an obituary published in the magazine is sewn into...
...well. He is our best drama critic, and he arrived at that position only lately, having proved himself at profiles and obituaries, fiction and all manner of criticism. When he writes the autobiography that shines through the cracks in this book, he will need to put The New Yorker aside for a time...