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Dear Editor Think Small The real value of a small-circulation magazine is that it does not have to be a "dedicated follower of fashion," and can cover events that are not "news" as such. A good...
...who is a professor of English at Brandeis University (thinly disguised in the novel under the name of another Jewish worthy as "Cardozo University...
...The second Jewish hero is Lenny Pincus...
...Bridgeport, Conn...
...Moreover...
...While pursuing this endeavor, he murders a foremost American-Jewish novelist named Norman Mailer (who, though he would be thrown out of court in the U.S...
...Bell, herself a Jewish critic, does this in a fortnightly journal founded by Jewish socialists...
...London T. R. Fvvel...
...Julius Ashe You Have to be Jewish...
...American Mischief has been hailed as a "brilliant and original comedy" by an overrated Jewish writer...
...Bell accuses Lelchuk of a whole host of small but sloppy and revealing mistakes: ot fact, of grammar, and of suggesting that an eminent Jewish professor of sociology, Daniel Bell, would use the solecism "alienation with...
...D allow ay may yet survive American Mischief...
...Philip Roth (overrated not for lack of wit but because of his narrow range—the Israel chapter in Portnox's Complaint was a dead giveaway...
...Lelchuk was also the associate editor of Modem Occasions, a little magazine edited by a prominent Jewish intellectual...
...a Brooklyn-born Cardozo graduate and revolutionary anarchist, out to expose the contradiction between Kovell's pulpit morality and libidinal confusion...
...Russell Warren Howe's story ("Storm Warnings in Capricorn Africa") reminds us of a problem that many people would prefer to forget...
...There is just one observation I would add-that Woolfs novels, when they first appeared, did have a certain nonrecapturable something-of-the-moment glow, especially if read in the English sun...
...How well she dealt with Virginia Woolf ('The Fin on the Sea...
...January 22...
...In either case, a curious miasma of collective Jewish solipsism emerges out of the United States...
...here you have the Jewish author of an evidently pornographic work, Alan Lelchuk...
...Eugene L. Meyer's article on the government's answer to Disneyland ("The Bicentennial Blues") points out a bit of Washington foolishness that has gotten lost amid the Watergate headlines, but should not be ignored...
...Dean Bernard Kovell tries to combine his liberal public stand for rational order with his egotistical and chaotic sex life, conducted with an improbable Olympic Decathlon prowess...
...In his classes he teaches Chaucer by giving him an American-Jewish cachet, i.e...
...Philip Rahv...
...Which brings me to Bell's admirable dissection of Alan Lelchuk's bestseller ("The Porn is Green...
...Nice...
...I quite agree with Saul Bellow (Mr...
...As a set book...
...Sammier's Planet) that American Jews, whose grandparents were still orthodox, are pathetically unconvincing in the role of first-century Roman decadents...
...can surely sue American Mischiefs British publisher for libel), and leads students in riots that culminate in the destruction of university libraries, as well as the kidnapping and torturing of recognizable Jewish intellectuals...
...January 8...
...however, when the explosion in Rhodesia and South Africa comes—as it most certainly will—we won't be able to say we weren't forewarned...
...In the entire article reference is made to only three non-Jewish names, those of Chaucer...
...and to what struck me about that piece...
...American Mischief may be a serious "exploration of the sexual and political chaos of our time...
...calling him "a kind of Philip Roth of the 14th century...
...That is to say...
...Lelchuk's novel has two heroes, both Jewish...
...A good example of this is provided by the April 30 issue of The New Leader, which contained two pieces of particular merit...
...Goethe and Beethoven...
...I write as a regular reader and admirer of Pearl K. Bell's literary features...
...or it may be...
...Between sex-and-chaos-obsessed American Jews to the West, and Moshe Dayan's superdisciplined Phantom fliers to the East, I wonder if there are any more ordinary Jews left in the middle like myself...
...as Bell thinks, "nasty, brutish and overlong pornography...
...As for all of the sexual huffing and puffing...
Vol. 56 • May 1973 • No. 10
