more Erica becomes unmarried, ttie morencluclsish she looks to us.nWith each reel we flounder morendeeply in the jelly-like reality of poses—nNew York, contemporary, metropolitan,nEast Side—also called lifestyles thesendays. The movie brings no news aboutnthem, except, perhaps, it makes theirnoverwhelming shallowness more perceptible.nOnce again it’s Blondie, this timenputting the blame for an everyday flopnon menstruation or breast size. The finalnmessage is multifaceted: bed is the onlyntesting ground of humanness, wherenneither communicative allusion nornembarrassment exist; independence is anburden, but it’s better than sharing fates;nthe world is created by the fiat of Ms.nMagazine and infested with men whonall, with only one exception, act likenPavlovian sex dogs. The exception is annartist, presented as sensitive, famous andnwealthy, although after we are permittednto see his paintings we wonder how henmanaged to sell even one of them. Hisnpatrons must be those who buy Mr.nMazursky’s “sensitivity,” “humor” andn”insight.” DnJournalismnTAMii^^^ Good StartnA new non-liberal journal made itsnappearance on the national scene not longnago, and its four issues have promise. Itnis a bimonthly published in Cranford,nNew Jersey. It calls itself The NewnAmerican Review, and has obviouslynconservative sympathies. It features wellknownnnames, both on its masthead andnin its text, and good articles signed bynlesser-known names, which is a goodnomen, for we know what to expect fromnvan den Haags, Kirks and Molnars, butnit is refreshing to read interesting thingsnby new people.nThe general tone of TNAR can bendescribed, as a serious discourse of nononsensenmatters. Its engaging characteristicnis that there is little politics in it,nand more of everything else. The editorsnof TNAR seem to be aware of politics’nwaning significance in the crucialnstruggle for the survival of Westernncivilization. TNAR’s publisher, Mr.nAllen Weakland, wrote in the Januaryn”While average men may not be awarenof the world of ideas, which they considernto be ‘too far over their heads,’nthere is a constant filtering through ofnphilosophical and cultural ideas viansociety’s middlemen —the televisionnproducers, cinema directors, and variousnpopularizers of high culture images andnideas.”nAnd he adds:n”Probably the major repellent keepingntwentieth century conservatives aloofnfrom the cultural arena is that conservativesnenvision the arts as cesspools ofnideology.”nIt is clear that TNAR has firmly decidednnot to sustain such attitudes. CHnNew York Times’nTalmudismn1 here has been a continuing debatenover the appointment of a self-avowednMarxist scholar by the name of BertellnOilman to the chairmanship of MarylandnUniversity’s Department of Government,nand whether it would be the Americannthing to do. The subtlest argument forninstalling Mr. Oilman in office comesnfrom a New York Times editorial whichnreveals that he has invented and patentedna new board game entitled “Class Struggle,”nformed a company. Class Struggle,nCo., and is now making money onnimbuing innocent players with thenfrustrations and futility of capitalism.nThis, concludes the Times, is:n”… a clear sign that he is, for practicalnpurposes, safely devoted to the systemnthat… the vigilantes in the [Maryland]nnnLegislature are so anxious to protect.”nWe can’t help wondering what methodnof argumentation the Times ‘editorialistsnwould devise to explain the eliminationnfrom the faculty posts of professors whonmerely asserted their conservative persuasionsnby the more traditional meansnof scholarship. DnNew York Magazine’snCommunistnPropagandanIn the April 14 issue of New YorknMagazine, the jewel in Rupert Murdoch’snarch-capitalist empire, we read a mammothnfeature on Angela Davis as annincarnation of wisdom, virtue and beauty.nThe homework was done by an in-housenwriter, a certain Orde Coombs, and itsnmessage was that blacks in America arenturning toward communism. The ultimatenauthorities on the pro-communistntidal wave were Ms. Vertamac Smart-nGrosvenor, Mr. Ellis Haizlip and Mr.nPeter Bailey. Prof. Thomas Sowell, Rev.nJesse Jackson, Mr. Ken Norton andnSecretary Patricia Harris were not consulted.nNor was the black Americanncitizen who had recently returned fromnCuba and declared at the airport that henpreferred to spend his life in a U.S. jailnrather than Fidel Castro’s communistn”freedom.” DnCriticon’s MessagenWhenever West German publicationsnare featured in the U.S. press, theirnflashy and imitative aspect comes first tonthe fore. It’s therefore a pleasure to noticenthat the old and genuinely German virtuenof blending the laborious with the assiduouslynaccurate and exhaustive is stillnalive and well in Munich in the form of anbimonthly. Critic on— An unabashedlynconservative journal. Published bynMessrs. Casper von Schrenck-Notzingnand Hanns Klatz, Criticon is conceivednand edited in the best tradition of Germann;25nChronicles of Culturen