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...advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic, tweedy Max Divver...
Take Soviet Ballet. Dennis' full-length portrait of Divver belongs in the gallery of great comic figures. In his youth reduced by sneering Manhattan intellectuals to a self-analyzing jelly, Divver believed, or thought he believed, in Freud and historical Forces; his misery reached brilliant heights as he talked his first marriage to death. He went abroad to study life under Fascism, and found significance in everything from prostitutes to opera. Wrote Divver in his notebook...
This is Patricia Divver, who heads up the 39 researchers who must check every word TIME prints to make sure it is straight and true and reliable. Before she came to TIME she was one of the three ranking Editors of FORTUNE...