Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from a dogmatic, astringent manner, Miss Sontag does not specifically resemble Miss McCarthy. She is, for one thing, far more "serious." By comparison, the younger McCarthy seems a kind of Vassar gun moll, playing Bonnie to the Clyde of Dwight Macdonald and other Partisan Reviewers of the 1930s and 1940s. Styles have changed. The vices (and virtues) of cleverness have now been replaced by the virtues (and vices) of relentlessly with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play...
...Journalism had issued its Challenge! The old guard was quick to react. And so, in the case of the aforementioned Tom Wolfe, we offer a few character references. From Joseph Alsop, came the disclosure that Tom Wolfe was an agent of Ho Chi Minh and campus disorders. Simultaneously, Dwight MacDonald--one of the "walking dead" himself--saw affinities between Wolfe, Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and your run-of-the-mill kamikaze pilot. Finally, in an effort to eliminate superficial contradictions while injecting a needed sense of perspective, Walter Lippmann categorically declared: "Tom Wolfe...
...people he wrote about! People like Baby Jane Holzer, Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Junior Johnson--the very inhabitants of Confidential and Hot Rod who had usurped the right to dictate taste to a liberated, but defeated, nation, usurping that right from the likes of Alsop and MacDonald. Instantly, Wolfe himself became as notorious as the exhibits in his journalistic beastiary. He enjoyed the role, despite the fact that he had been handed a reputation he felt he hadn't really earned. "I used to try to keep out of sight, just so I wouldn't blow...
...MACDONALD claimed Wolfe's style was all a sham. He called it "parajournalism--a bastard form, having it both ways, exploiting the factual authority of journalism and the atmospheric license of fiction." He could not accept Wolfe as PR man extraordinary, whose technique is to exaggerate--sometimes even to invent--fact in an effort to get at the truth. And, in certain cases, Wolfe has made notable gaffs--where the New Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken...