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Writing with the authority of long service as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and The New Yorker magazine, Christopher Rand made no secret of his disapproval of the performance of his colleagues. While watching the overseas press corps cover a war in Asia, Rand became convinced that "the crusading or bellicose tradition of U.S. journalism goes badly with foreign reporting." On their foreign beat, he wrote, the crusaders seemed "more eager to put on an act than to right wrongs. Or perhaps they had fallen into mere hostility for its own sake. It seemed...
...strongly deplore the violence. It is absolutely wrong, socially detestable and self-defeating. On the other hand, I equally deplore the continuation of ghetto life that millions of Negroes have to live in. They are in hopeless despair, and they feel they have no stake in society." New Yorker Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the Urban League: "It's not enough to deplore the violence. This is but a symptom." Jesse Gray, leader of the rent strikes in Harlem during 1963: "We need 100 skilled black revolutionaries, dedicated men ready to die. We must make each a platoon...
Another volunteer witness, Charles Callas, an unemployed New Yorker who worked for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as a junior reearcher in 1952, claimed that while Fortas served as attorney for Owen Lattimore, he had "deliberately withheld" from Senate investigators information about a Communist at the State Department. "That is absolutely inconceivable to me," Fortas said. "I have never, would never, could never, in any way, misrepresent directly or indirectly or by implication anything to a committee of the Congress or to a court-and I hope to anybody else...
...story line itself is some-where between bad New Yorker and good Modern Romances, and it isn't helped by Miss Bernays' failure to make most of the minor characters come alive. For example, the various dirty old and dirty young men the girls meet in Italy are somewhat far-fetched, to say the least. And somehow, one can't quite picture an alcoholic painter-lover, who "treated life as if it were a hard-boiled egg, cracking it open and devouring it regularly...
...included in the book is Wolfe's most widely discussed article-a cruel, 11,000-word evisceration of The New Yorker. That piece set literary jowls aquiver from Morningside Heights to Greenwich Village, and threw New Yorker staffers into a spate of semi-public wig flippings that are still going on-notably in a bitter rebuttal that Writer Dwight Macdonald is preparing for the biweekly New York Review of Books...