but a faintly ominous one. It assumesnthat the sexual revolution, mandated bynan elite, has propelled men in the UnitednStates beyond their predecessors intonsome strange new world. But that note,nburied in the introduction of the professor’snbook, is submerged for somentime, while he meditates unchronologicallynabout being or becoming a man.n^nce he has chosen to be intenselynpersonal, there...

folktale, from the simple man’snmythology. That mythology isnprimitive only in the sense ofnbeing primordial and ubiquitous,nand it is pagan only in being uncodifiednas rigid ritual. But itsningredients are part of the chemistrynof dream whatever its placenon the ladder of civilization,nwhatever its dialectical stage—nideologues and bureaucrats notwithstanding.n(JGP) DnSeriouslynSpeakingnRend A. Wormser: ConservativelynSpeaking; Wayne E. DorlandnCo.; Mendham, New...

ScreennStylish VoidnThe Long Riders; Written by BillnBryden; Directed by Walter Hill;nUnited Artists.nby Eric ShapearonThe Western is epic literature,nwhichever its dimension—trash or art.nEpic means dramatic growth—charactersnmust change, or “develop” as thentrade term goes. When they renouncenthe dynamics of personal drama—shallow,nschmaltzy, melodramatic, whichever—therenis no epic matter on thenpages or the screen, and no Western.nAt the beginning of...

him and Benny Carter into a photonsession.nThey made us perform a bebop greetingnfor them. ‘Hi-ya, man!’ ‘Bellsnman, where you been.” giving thensign of the flatted fifth, a raised opennhand.n’Eel-ya-da!’ We gave a three-fingerednsign that we were playing triplets, endingnwith an elaborate handshake. Thatnwas supposed to be the bebopper’sngreeting, but there was no such thingnin real...

from swing to bop. He attributes greatntalent to largely forgotten musiciansnlike trumpeters Bobby Moore and WillienNelson.nIn a recent issue, Down Beat magazinencarried an interview with a prominentnjazz artist and repertoire directornwho expounded on the need for musiciansnto accommodate the requirementsnand compromises of business if they arento succeed. Gillespie, whose lack of artisticncompromise is legendary, has...

nated from the Republican contest, hendeclared himself to be an independentncandidate for the presidency. At thatnmoment, he became the polls’ pol: sympatheticnpollsters working for televisionnand giant liberal press outfits began tonconstruct questions like: “Would younvote for John Anderson on a crisp, sunnynNovember day, when you had nothingnbetter to do and knew nothing aboutnhim?” Whatever percentage...

attract the Village Voice, even if henterms himself a pious Christian. Hennever came up with a rebuttal to thenadulation of Playboy’s readers; he doesnnot have the ideological equipment tondeal with this kind of problem. “I believenin the power of ideas,” he keepsnrepeating. So does everybody else, butnthe corollary question must be: Whichnideas.” Here the paucity...

Anderson and his wife] concluded thatnhe had neither the wealth nor the connectionsnto rise very far very fast, theyncame home to try a different route tontheir dreams.” This route was to travelnas an archconservative from Rockfordnto Washington, D.C. Once there, Mr.nAnderson discovered, in the mid-60’s,nthat occasionally bending his course tonthe left could mean a voyage...

and deeply dismayed about their lethalness,ntheir threat to society, their distribution,nand—last but not least —nagainst the permissiveness, even malfeasance,nof those who are insensitivento the drug problem and its many dimensions.nHad it been a gathering of academiciansnwishing to encourage the drugnsubculture, praise the innocence andnminimize the medically proven perniciousnessnof mind-altering drugs, bothnbroadcast and print media would...

Liberal CensorshipnEarly in April the famousnmovie director, King Vidor, wasna guest on the late-night talknshow Tomorrow. Few peoplencan combine insomnia with annability to tolerate Tom Snyder,nbut those who can witnessed anninteresting and revealingnincident.nA short scene from Vidor’sn1934 movie. Our Daily Bread,nwas shown. In this scene thenhero urges a crowd of fellownvictims of the depression to...

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Editor’s Commentn1.nA couple of distinguished gentlemen recently indulged innan exchange on patriotism. Their polemics were conductednin the letters-to-the-editor section of the New York Times—nan organ of distinction. Ambrose Bierce was invoked, asnwas Dr. Johnson and his old dictum about scoundrels andnpatriotic sentiments. Reading all that, it occurred to me thatnemotions which spring from one’s rapport...

Thus, if no Spaniard would voluntarily agree to a non-nSpanish toreador, no feeling of impropriety would ever crossnan American’s mind when hearing about a Bulgarian trapper.nWhich leads us back to the very core of wholeheartednAmerican acceptance of daily syncretism, so incompatiblenwith the Euro-Asian sense of an established order of nationalnvalues, peculiarities, vanities and stigmas. Everywhere...

opinions &. ViewsnMorals & MannersnNorman Podhoretz: BreakingnRanks; Harper & Row; New York.nby Paul GottfriednJL he New York intellectual establishmentnhas long left its mark bothnupon American journalism and academicnopinion, yet few have thus farndiscussed it with as much knowledgenand critical insight as Norman Podhoretz.nAs editor in chief of Commentarynsince 1960, he was at first decisive innpushing...

that he has always been at the center ofnsomething important, that he has a mission.nThe angelic intermediaries tellnhim to throw away his Bible becausenthey themselves will show him the greatnbook clearly and interpret its meaningnfor him. “I said I am willing, where amnI to go?” He is ready. “Your tongue wasnbound so that in the...

en’s Seventh (naturally), he dances HkenDavid before the Ark, because likenDavid he is man and still the anointednof the Lord. “What good is not directlynbreathed into the world by the holynspirit must come down by and throughnthe nature of men.” This, then, isnMatty’s incarnational view of Christiannrealism.nFinally, back to Mr. Pedigree, thenonly person with whom...

but dictated his daily observations andnhis activities, with suitable citations andnquotes, at the end of his working daynfor inclusion in his Alpha File. Personsnapt to meander intellectually would soonnfind the disparity between their assumptionsnand the evidence of reality too embarrassingnto examine, but the senatornfrom Arizona is what Francis W. Newmanncalled a “once-born.” He is one...

ited the mantle and would be invulnerable.nThere were other reasons. Goldwater’snlifestyle was private; the exposurenand the pomp of the Americannpresidency today, so dear to the heartsnof Johnson and Kennedy, did not appealnto the Arizonian. Another reason wasnthat he appreciated as did few others thenimmense entrenched power of a bureaucracynthat had defeated Eisenhower,nKennedy, and would certainly...

A Wistful WarningnEve Babitz: Sex and Rage; Alfred A.nKnopf; New York.nby Becki KlutenJHL. glance at the title might make onenexpect another women’s-lib tract—notnso. To look just a little further, the dustjacketndescription, for instance, couldngive the impression that it is a paean tonthe Beautiful People’s counterculture.nThere will, of course, be a multitude ofnlibcult folks who ignore...

worshipful; Babitz’s view, especially towardnthe end, seems almost wistful. It’snas if she’s disappointed that what seemednso lovely turned out to be so foul: “It willnnever be the same again.” It’s an echo ofnwhat every adult feels when biddingngoodbye, sometimes reluctantly, tonchildhood; even the worst aspects arentinged with the rosy glow of innocence,nnow lost—and one knows...

But if the first marriage is like the second,nthen Vasos is better off alone. AlthoughnVida and Leigh were united inna ceremony, it seems as if they didn’tnwant to be married, but at the samentime, they did want to be. For example,nreminiscing, Vida says to Leigh, “Remembernhow hard it was for us to breaknout of that...

Forbidden TalesnMartin Green: Dreams of Adventure,nDeeds of Empire; Basic Books;nNew York.nby Gordon M. PradlnUnder the covers night after nightnmy flashlight made voyages to distantnlands possible. Expectantly, my fingersnrushed to turn the page as the first matenstruggled to ward off a marauding bandnof savages. Cornered, he managed tonwrestle free a spear, but then fatiguenovertook me and...

that he has always been at the center ofnsomething important, that he has a mission.nThe angeHc intermediaries tellnhim to throw away his Bible becausenthey themselves will show him the greatnbook clearly and interpret its meaningnfor him. “I said I am willing, where amnI to go?” He is ready. “Your tongue wasnbound so that in the...

en’s Seventh (naturally), he dances likenDavid before the Ark, because likenDavid he is man and still the anointednof the Lord. “What good is not directlynbreathed into the world by the holynspirit must come down by and throughnthe nature of men.” This, then, isnMatty’s incarnational view of Christiannrealism.nFinally, back to Mr. Pedigree, thenonly person with whom...

but dictated his daily observations andnhis activities, with suitable citations andnquotes, at the end of his working daynfor inclusion in his Alpha File. Personsnapt to meander intellectually would soonnfind the disparity between their assumptionsnand the evidence of reality too embarrassingnto examine, but the senatornfrom Arizona is what Francis W. Newmanncalled a “once-born.” He is one...

A Wistful WarningnEve Babitz: Sex and Rage; Alfred A.nKnopf; New York.nby Becki KlutenxV glance at the title might make onenexpect another women’s-lib tract—notnso. To look just a little further, the dustjacketndescription, for instance, couldngive the impression that it is a paean tonthe Beautiful People’s counterculture.nThere will, of course, be a multitude ofnlibcult folks who ignore...

worshipful; Babitz’s view, especially towardnthe end, seems almost wistful. It’snas if she’s disappointed that what seemednso lovely turned out to be so foul: “It willnnever be the same again.” It’s an echo ofnwhat every adult feels when biddingngoodbye, sometimes reluctantly, tonchildhood; even the worst aspects arentinged with the rosy glow of innocence,nnow lost—and one knows...

But if the first marriage is like the second,nthen Vasos is better off alone. AlthoughnVida and Leigh were united inna ceremony, it seems as if they didn’tnwant to be married, but at the samentime, they did want to be. For example,nreminiscing, Vida says to Leigh, “Remembernhow hard it was for us to breaknout of that...

Forbidden TalesnMartin Green: Dreams of Adventure,nDeeds of Empire; Basic Books;nNew York.nby Gordon M. PradlnUnder the covers night after nightnmy flashlight made voyages to distantnlands possible. Expectantly, my fingersnrushed to turn the page as the first matenstruggled to ward off a marauding bandnof savages. Cornered, he managed tonwrestle free a spear, but then fatiguenovertook me and...

and deeds necessary for heroes whonwould conquer the globe, spreading thensuperficial marks of British culture beforenthem; on the other, literature wasncontent to contemplate the nature ofnhuman emotion close at home by thensafe confines of the fireside.nEach of these realms of experiencencan clearly profit from the scrutinizingnimagination of the man of letters, yetnunfortunately only the domestic...

onistic points of view, it was thencommon reader who ruled in favor ofnDefoe: Gulliver was not read in termsnof its real intent and so the RobinsonnCrusoe perspective prevailed, fanningnthe flames of empire in the popularnimagination. It is Defoe, however, whonis banned from the realms of high culturenas the landed gentry, representednin the personage of Dean...

The finger slicing is, of course, anninept imitation of the well-known episodenfrom Tolstoy’s Father Sergius.nAt his birthday party in a restaurant,nFabian overturned a flaming brandyncake and caught fire:n”His clothes ablaze, he plungednthrough the room, stumbling by tablesnof still-cheering patrons, toward a sidendoor opening on a verandah aboventhe gardens. He vaulted over its railing,ninto the lush...

superdevious and ultrasophisticated.nIn fact, it’s a reality of dimwits immunento rational argumentation.nFabian’s last conquest is a youngnmillionaire heiress who, supported bynher patrician father, implores the old,npoor, plain Fabian to marry her. Fabiannrefuses, but graciously agrees to spendnone night with her. Between these firstnand last conquests Hollywood’s sexualnRobin Hood scores other dazzling victories,namong them a schoolgirl...

The Young, the Radical and the UglynMichael Wolff: White Kids; SummitnBooks; New York.nLouis Filler: Vanguards and Followers;nNelson-Hall; Chicago.nby Edward J. WalshnA marvelous setting into perspectivenis accomplished by White Kids—angentle first novel—and Vanguards andnFollowers—a thorough and authoritativenhistory of what have been calledn”youth movements” in America. Togethernthey form a picture of the 1960’snthat is ugly and sad,...

bell, Kentucky and Fort Benning, Georgia.nAt Benning he meets LieutenantnTerhune, infantry officer, general’snaide and bachelor, a status which, innthe Old Army, is still a mark againstnhim. He spends casual days with Terhune,ntalking about Army life, parachuting,nrunning, taking part in warngames. The camp routine of the Armynin 1979 is much as it was in 1969 orn1939:...

Filler tells us, it was considered “badntaste” to discuss the Manson connection.nThe violence continued and increasednwith the Weather Underground bombingsnof the early 70’s. But the movementnwas crumbling.nVanguards and Followers is mostninstructive in chronicling the culturalnroots of the movement. Filler studies itsncauses and its effects asking why, of allnthe antisocial lurches of nearly two centuriesnof American...

themes that do lurk in this book. And Inwould begin with a story of my own.nRecently, the local press reported a controversynwracking the University ofnMaryland—an otherwise calm behemothninstitution of no great distinction.nThe controversy involved the managementnof a “nonprofit” co-op lunchncounter where students could go rathernthan the local Pizza Hut or, worse, thenofficial student union. Rememberingninstitutional...

and deeds necessary for heroes whonwould conquer the globe, spreading thensuperficial marks of British culture beforenthem; on the other, literature wasncontent to contemplate the nature ofnhuman emotion close at home by thensafe confines of the fireside.nEach of these realms of experiencencan clearly profit from the scrutinizingnimagination of the man of letters, yetnunfortunately only the domestic...

onistic points of view, it was thencommon reader who ruled in favor ofnDefoe: Gulliver was not read in termsnof its real intent and so the RobinsonnCrusoe perspective prevailed, fanningnthe flames of empire in the popularnimagination. It is Defoe, however, whonis banned from the realms of high culturenas the landed gentry, representednin the personage of Dean...

The finger slicing is, of course, anninept imitation of the well-known episodenfrom Tolstoy’s Father Sergius.nAt his birthday party in a restaurant,nFabian overturned a flaming brandyncake and caught fire:n”His clothes ablaze, he plungednthrough the room, stumbling by tablesnof still-cheering patrons, toward a sidendoor opening on a verandah aboventhe gardens. He vaulted over its railing,ninto the lush...

superdevious and ultrasophisticated.nIn fact, it’s a reality of dimwits immunento rational argumentation.nFabian’s last conquest is a youngnmillionaire heiress who, supported bynher patrician father, implores the old,npoor, plain Fabian to marry her. Fabiannrefuses, but graciously agrees to spendnone night with her. Between these firstnand last conquests Hollywood’s sexualnRobin Hood scores other dazzling victories,namong them a schoolgirl...

The Young, the Radical and the UglynMichael Wolff: White Kids; SummitnBooks; New York.nLouis Filler: Vanguards and Followers;nNelson-Hall; Chicago.nby Edward J. WalshnA marvelous setting into perspectivenis accomplished by White Kids—a.ngentle first novel—and Vanguards andnFollowers—a thorough and authoritativenhistory of what have been calledn”youth movements” in America. Togethernthey form a picture of the 1960’snthat is ugly and sad,...

bell, Kentucky and Fort Benning, Georgia.nAt Benning he meets LieutenantnTerhune, infantry officer, general’snaide and bachelor, a status which, innthe Old Army, is still a, mark againstnhim. He spends casual days with Terhune,ntalking about Army life, parachuting,nrunning, taking part in warngames. The camp routine of the Armynin 1979 is much as it was in 1969 orn1939:...

Filler tells us, it was considered “badntaste” to discuss the Manson connection.nThe violence continued and increasednwith the Weather Underground bombingsnof the early 70’s. But the movementnwas crumbling.nVanguards and Followers is mostninstructive in chronicling the culturalnroots of the movement. Filler studies itsncauses and its effects asking why, of allnthe antisocial lurches of nearly two centuriesnof American...

themes that do lurk in this book. And Inwould begin with a story of my own.nRecently, the local press reported a controversynwracking the University ofnMaryland—an otherwise calm behemothninstitution of no great distinction.nThe controversy involved the managementnof a “nonprofit” co-op lunchncounter where students could go rathernthan the local Pizza Hut or, worse, thenofficial student union. Rememberingninstitutional...

apparently matters little that Aristotle,nPericles and Socrates also were conceptuallynconcerned with them.nThe New York Times has attemptedna feat of rare sophistication: it enlistednthe services of a certain Mr. MichaelnCalabrese, a Ralph Nader associate, whonset out to prove that Reagan was fleecingnconservatives by selling himself asna conservative, which Calabrese believesnhis record as the governor of Californiandisproves:...

staunch defenders of sexual laxity as ancivil right. In 1978 there were over anmillion pregnancies among ll-to-12year-olds.nDoctors and psychiatrists havennow begun to discuss the generationalngenetic damage which may follow thisnphenomenon, impairing the health ofnthe entire population; babies born tonchildren are often afflicted by mentalnand physical pathologies and gravelynimpaired nervous systems.nMany arguments are heard explainingnthe problem....

So Be It!nHow gratifying it is to quotenthe New York Times BooknReview without rancor and withnappreciation. And we have anvague feeling that a suspicion wenhave cautiously voiced in thesenpages for so long has finallynfound its way even into thenminds and editorial offices onnWest 43rd Street:n”One of the saddest thingsnabout psychology today isnthat so many of...

The Art of AdnIn the classified section ofnWomen’s Wear Daily, we couldnfind the following ad:n”SEX!nNow that we have yournattention, we’d like to tellnyou about our fabulous collectionnof off-priced dresses,nsuits, tops, jeans, etc. . ,”nImagine, there are still peoplenaround who do not believe Dr.nPavlov, and who dismiss his acquaintancenwith dogs as unscientific.nDnEditor’s Comment continued from page...

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