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Dream Vacation is a registered trademark of Delta Air Lines, Inc. fe)1987 Delta Air Lines, Inc. 56 FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1987 `New York Intellectuals' Views Three Generations JOSEPH COHEN Special to The Jewish News T he Story of that re- markable "herd of in- dependent minds," the famed group of writers and thinkers known as New York Intellectuals (with a capital I) has now been told, in all of its ramifications, diversities and complexities by Alexander Bloom in his compelling, highly readable social history Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World (Oxford University Press). • A large cast of characters, Bloom introduces them in sequence, describing the immigrant socialist Jewish milieu from which they came. Among those of the first generation were Philip Rahv (died 1973), William Phillips (the family name was Litvinsky), Sidney Hook, Mary McCarthy (no Brownsville immigrant daughter, she), Lionel Trilling (one of the two great American literary critics of our time, died 1975), his wife, Diana (nee Ru- bin), Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg (died 1978), Dwight Mac- donald (died 1982) and Elliot Cohen (curiously from Mobile, Ala., a Yale graduate, he was the brilliant first editor of Commentary, died by his own hand in 1959). The second generation con- sisted of Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, Delmore Schwartz (died 1956), Leslie Fiedler, Seymour Martin Lip- set, Nathan Glazer, Alfred Ka- zin, Robert Warshow (died 1955), Melvin Lasky, Isaac Rosenfeld (died 1956) and Saul Bellow. A third generation in- cludes Lionel Trilling's stu- dent, Norman Podhoretz, his wife, Midge Decter, and Steven Marcus: To follow the progress of the New York Intellectuals in poli- tics and literature is to retrace American history from the 19'30s to the present. Though they began as Marxists, they ran the gamut in their political persuasions, moving from a pro-Stalinist position to an anti-Stalinist one, comment- ing on Roosevelt's New Deal policies, playing footsie for a time with Trotsky, endorsing proletarian literature, then turning from it to modernism, - essaying the roles of Eliot, Pound, Kafka and Joyce, weld- ing connections between poli- tics and literature, arguing that the goals of the political polemicist and the literary cri- tic were parallel in shaping the thinking of both the masses and the elite. Through the Par- tisan Review, and, sub- sequently, Commentary, Dis- . Norman Podhoretz: Heading to the right. sent — one can't help being re- minded of Woody Allen's wag- gish observation that if those two journals merged they could call the successor "Dysentery" — and the New York Review of Books, they did indeed mold public opinion to the extent that by the 1950's the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post and other prestigious papers and jour- nals were open to them. Rarely in agreement and frequently at war with one an- other, they had something co- gent to say about every impor- tant issue and event of our times, the Second World War, the Cold War, the McCarthy investigations, Jewish identity and alienation, the Jewish literary renaissance, making it in America, postwar liberalism, the civil disorders of the 1960's and the counter- culture, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, the "New Left," Hannah Arendt's theories of totalitarianism, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the Alger Hiss Case, and the emergence of neo-conservatism with its swing in recent years to the Reagan right. In this latter context, Bloom explores at length the emergence of Nor- man Podhoretz as the controv- ersial King of the Mountain, recalling the dismay with which his friends and associ- ates tried to dissuade him from publishing Making It (1968), the first volume of his auto- biography which announced with consummate bad taste his capitualtion to fame. In retrospect, Making It merely confirms that Podhoretz was headed toward the right all along. That's okay, but the fact that he has moved Commentary com- pletely into his own corner has incensed so many contempor- ary American intellectuals they have now established a new liberal journal, entitled Tikkun, to replace the now lost formally broad-visioned recep- tivity of Commentary.