Preferred Citation: Jumonville, Neil. Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9w1009t9/


 

Index

A

Aaron, Daniel, xi , 247 n.3

Abel, Lionel, 55 , 163 , 167 , 223 , 234 , 266 n.41

Absolutism,

opposition to: xiii , 9 -10, 19 , 22 -23, 243 n.60;

as faith, 104 -6, 107 -8, 223 -25, 257 n.9, 278 n.7;

as ideology, 102 , 108 -16, 143 , 149 -50, 166 , 204 -11, 216 , 219 -20, 224 -29, 231 -33, 241 n.25, 258 n.20, 275 n.94, 278 n.7;

as romanticism, 124 , 154 -58, 164 -65, 187 -93, 204 , 218 , 221 -29, 260 n.61;

as sociology, 216 , 219 -20;

as total solution, 106 -9, 216 , 278 n.7

Abstract expressionist painting, 136 -39, 160 , 161 , 163

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 32 -33

Acheson, Dean, 46 , 144

Action painting, 136 -39, 153 , 162

Adams, Charles, 4

Adams, Henry, 4 -5, 6 , 117 , 235

Addison, Joseph, 3

Adenauer, Konrad, 94

Adler, Mortimer, 22 -23

Adorno, Theodor, 66 , 155 , 216

Advertising Council of America, 135 , 40 -42

Aesthetic pluralism, 13 , 164 , 169 -75, 181 -82, 184 -85, 254 n.115, 267 -68n.65

African-American issues, 99 , 168 , 196 -97, 205 , 208 , 272 n.44

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 4

Algonquin group, 5

American Civil Liberties Union, 199

American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 34 -35, 50 , 60 , 69 , 79 , 90 , 214 -15

American Guide series (WPA), 135

American Jewish Committee, 61 , 63 , 87

American Scholar , 231

Americans for Democratic Action, 91

Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 50 , 69 ;

activities of, 30 -35;

arguments of, 40 -47;

and counter-conference (Freedom House), 29 , 30 , 33 , 40 , 42 -44, 47 , 245 n.92;

formation of, 29 -30;

on visas, 15

American Sociological Review , 212

American Workers Party, 25

Anchor Books, 88

Anderson, Sherwood, 70 , 124

Antioch College, 132

Antioch Review , 103 , 130 -33

Arac, Jonathan, 255 n.124

Arendt, Hannah, 64 -66, 80 , 136 , 163 , 194 , 222

Arnold, Matthew, 3 , 113 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 121 , 123

Aron, Raymond, 97 , 109

Atlantic , 4 , 152


280

Atlas, James, 234 , 235

Avukah Student Action , 86

B

Babbitt, Irving, 5

Baldwin, James, 196

Bancroft, George, 6

Barlow, Joel, 3

Barone, Enrico, 256 n.141

Barrett, William, 8 , 24 , 234 ;

and Commentary , 64 , 77 ;

on Greenberg, 159 , 162 ;

and Partisan Review , 51 , 54 ;

on Lionel Trilling, 118 -19, 120 , 122 ;

and Waldorf Conference, 46

Barthes, Roland, 179

Beard, Charles, 6

Beats, xiii , 22 , 186 -93, 194 , 195 , 196 , 203 , 264 n.1, 271 n.18

Becker, Carl, 6

Beichman, Arnold, 29

Bell, Daniel, 7 , 8 , 9 , 71 , 72 , 211 -23, 257 n.9, 274 n.87, 275 -76n.97;

on art, 161 ;

and Commentary , 64 , 274 n.86;

and consensus, 215 , 216 -18;

and End of Ideology , 217 -18, 220 , 254 n.107, 262 n.108;

and Glazer, 87 ;

and Hofstadter, 212 , 214 , 274 n.86;

on Hofstadter, 59 , 222 ;

and Hook, 18 , 26 , 125 ;

as Kantian, 162 , 218 ;

on mass culture, 153 ;

and New Left, 205 -10, 214 -15, 227 -28;

on Podhoretz, 276 n.104;

and Politics , 55 , 56 , 213 ;

on Harold Rosenberg, 140 , 143 , 262 n.108;

and Schumpeter, 239 n.15, 276 n.102;

on Shils, 168 , 267 n.50;

and sociology, 165 -66, 216 -18, 219 -20, 264 n.12, 275 nn. 93 and 94;

at University of Chicago, 57 , 167

Bellow, Saul, 9 , 119 , 136

Benda, Julian, 100

Benjamin, Walter, 66

Bennington College, 88

Benson, Allen, 18

Bentley, Elizabeth, 103 , 129

Bernstein, Eduard, 26 , 61

Bernstein, Leonard, 31

Bixler, Paul, 132

Blake, Casey, 269 n.84

Blanding, Sarah Gibson, 31

Bloom, Alexander, xii

Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen, 256 n.141

Boorstin, Daniel, 109 , 216 -17

Bourne, Randolph, 7

Brameld, Theodore, 43 -45

Brandeis University, 80 -81, 83 , 85 , 183 , 204

Brando, Marlon, 31

Brecht, Bertolt, 160

Brinkley, Alan, 236

Brooks, Van Wyck, 5 , 7 , 72 , 157

Brown, Pat, 225

Brown, Sterling, 5

Brownson, Orestes, 4 , 6

Brustein, Robert, 195 , 201

Brym, Robert, 11 , 272 n.44

Budenz, Louis, 103

Burke, Kenneth, 5 , 160

Burnham, James, 25 , 49

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 118

Buttinger, Joseph, 81

C

Calverton, Victor Francis, 6

Cambridge University, 195

Canadian Commonwealth Federation, 56

Cassirer, Ernst, 160

Castro, Fidel, 204

Center for Behavioral Studies, 208

Chambers, Whittaker:

as conservative, 144 -49;

Hausknecht on, 132 , 263 n.125;

Hook on, 104 , 106 -7, 128 , 141 , 224 , 263 n.125;

Mary McCarthy on, 129 -30;

Middle of the Journey (Trilling) on, 110 -13;

and New Masses , 6 ;

as rationalist, 258 n.13;

Harold Rosenberg on, 130 , 141 ;

and Witness , 103 -7, 115 -16, 194 , 257 n.7

Chiaromonte, Nicola, 56 , 97 , 109 , 140

Chomsky, Noam, 56 , 236

City College of the City University of New York (formerly College of the City of New York), 8 , 18 -19, 37 , 59 , 71 , 86 , 87 , 135 , 212

Civil rights movement, 99 , 272 n.44


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Civil Service Commission, U.S., 158

Clair, Louis. See Coser, Lewis

Clement, Travers, 83

Cohen, Elliot, 61 , 63 -64, 117 -18, 163 , 215 , 253 -54n.103

Cohen, Morris, 18 -19, 22 , 117 , 127

Collier, Peter, 257 n.3

Columbia University, 19 , 31 , 57 , 58 , 80 , 87 , 110 , 117 -19, 120 , 166 , 179 , 183 , 187 , 194 , 195 , 212 , 214 , 216 , 274 n.86;

and student radicalism, 205 -8, 214 -15, 222 , 272 n.44

Commager, Henry Steele, 6 , 181

Commentary , 8 , 105 , 165 ;

in 1940s, 58 , 61 , 63 -65, 77 , 87 , 158 , 159 , 213 ;

in 1950s, 77 -79, 83 -85, 87 -94, 100 , 110 , 146 , 163 -64, 192 , 195 , 214 , 253 -54n.103, 274 n.86;

in 1960s, 196 -99, 203 , 219 ;

in 1970s and 1980s, 199 -202, 231 , 233 , 234

Committee for Cultural Freedom (1939), 25 , 29 , 30 , 34 , 50 , 69

Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 38

Committee for the Free World, 220 , 230 , 233

Common Sense , 56

Communist Eleven trials, 14 -15

Communist Party, 14 , 23 , 101 , 134 , 149 , 160

Congress for Cultural Freedom, 34 , 108 , 167 , 168 , 189 , 214 , 267 n.50

Consensus historians, xiv , 109 , 125 , 216 -17, 275 n.95

Contemporary Jewish Record , 8 , 63 , 87 , 158 , 159

Contextual criticism, 9 , 139 , 179 , 182

Cooney, Terry, xii , 263 n.113

Copland, Aaron, 31

Cork, Jim, 79

Corso, Gregory, 187

Coser, Lewis, xiii , 8 , 9 , 12 , 65 , 69 , 70 , 72 , 78 , 87 , 167 , 236 , 263 n.118;

on Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 29 ;

as Louis Clair, 57 , 79 ;

forming Dissent , 79 -83;

and Dissent in 1950s, 83 -85, 93 , 95 -96, 98 -99;

on mass culture, 156 ;

and New Left, 203 , 204 , 208 ;

on early Partisan Review , 53 ;

and Politics , 55 , 56 -59, 61 , 213 ;

and sociology, 57 -58, 165 -66

Coser, Rose Laub, 57 , 81

Coughlin, Father Charles, 222 , 276 -77n.108

Counterculture, 185 , 192 -93, 195 , 196 , 197 -98, 199 , 201 , 203 , 221 -29, 264 n.1, 276 -77n.108

Counts, George, 15 , 29 , 43 -44

Cousins, Norman, 40 ,41

Cowley, Malcolm, 5 , 6 , 7 , 11 , 37 , 39 , 245 -46n.99

Critic , 80 , 82

Crossman, Richard, 105 , 115

Cultural pluralism. See Aesthetic pluralism

Cultural studies movement, 177 , 184 , 234 , 264 -65n.14, 275 n.94

Customs Service, U.S., 158 -59

D

Dadaism, 136 , 160

Daedalus conference on mass culture, 171 -72

Davidson, Donald, 5

Davis, Herbert, 16

Davis, Robert Gorham, 77 , 105

Debs, Eugene, 37 , 165

Decter, Midge, 64 , 230

de Kooning, Willem, 121 , 162 , 163 , 266 n.41

Dell, Floyd, 5 , 36

Democracy:

aesthetic-cultural, 164 , 169 -75, 181 -82, 185 ;

direct, mass, populist, 151 -52, 164 , 169 -75, 181 -82, 185 , 192 , 209 , 222 , 237 n.4;

and Hook, 24 , 25 , 27 , 28 , 200 ;

liberalism and, 76 , 95 -99, 110 , 200 ;

participatory, 204 ;

and pragmatic, experimental method, 21 , 43 , 106 , 126 , 170 , 200 , 278 n.7;

representative, 169 -75, 181 , 204 , 209 ;

in the university, 202 -3, 209 , 210

Democratic socialism, 25 , 51 , 53 , 76 , 193 , 200 , 221 , 225 ;

and Dissent , 82 , 95 -99


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Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, 76

Democratic Socialists of America, 76

Denney, Reuel, 58

Dennis, Eugene, 14

Depression, Great, 71 , 193 , 212

Dewey, John, 7 , 225 , 232 ;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 30 ;

and anti-absolutism, 107 -8, 219 ;

and Bell, 216 , 219 ;

and Committee for Cultural Freedom, 50 ;

and Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 38 ;

and Hook, 18 -22, 25 , 27 , 61 -62, 95 , 117 , 146 , 169 , 215 , 229 ;

Kazin on, 72 -73;

and tragic sense of life, 126

Dial , 4 , 5

Diamond, Martin, 57

Dickinson, Henry, 97

Didion, Joan, 236

Dies Committee, 50 , 247 -48n.4

Diggins, John, xii , 178

Dissent , xiii , 8 , 53 , 59 , 69 , 70 , 76 , 134 , 178 , 218 , 220 , 234 , 253 n.98, 253 -54n.103;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 29 ;

on the Beats and counterculture, 187 , 190 ;

founding of, 79 -83;

on mass culture, 156 ;

and New Left, 203 , 204 -5, 225 ;

in 1950s, 83 -85, 87 -88, 91 , 92 -99, 110 , 131 , 146 , 263 n.118

Dorner, Hannah, 14 -15

Dos Passos, John, 30

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 105 , 106 , 128 , 257 n.7

Draper, John, 19

Dreiser, Theodore, 121 , 123 -24

Dulles, John Foster, 94

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 5

Dupee, F. W., 38 , 50 , 194 , 205 , 208

Dwight, Timothy, 3

E

Eastman, Max, 5 , 26 , 27 , 36

Edman, Irwin, 31

Einstein, Albert, 28 , 31

Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 5 , 161 , 168

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4 -5, 7 , 20 , 70 , 72 , 73 , 74

Encounter , 8 , 82 , 110 , 189

End of ideology, 108 , 168 , 211 , 217 -18, 220 , 224 , 254 n.107, 258 n.20, 262 n.108;

ideology defined, 241 n.25

Enlightenment, 126 , 231 -32

Enquiry , 57

Epstein, Jason, xi , 88 , 194 , 195 , 236

Epstein, Joseph, 231

Esquire , 156 , 168

F

Fadayev, Alexander, 32 , 46

Fadiman, Clifton, 64

Fallows, James, 236

Farrell, James T., 29 , 30 , 34 , 56 , 121

Fast, Howard, 17 , 30 , 31 , 41

Faulkner, William, 70 , 195

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 15

Federal Writers Project, 135

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 187

Feuer, Lewis, 20 , 24 , 88 , 205

Feuerbach, Ludwig, 20

Fiedler, Leslie, 127 -28, 130 , 134 , 144 -45, 148 -49, 197

Filler, Louis, 132 -33

Fischer, Louis, 33 , 106

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 122

Ford, James W., 23

Formalism:

in art, 161 , 182 ;

in literature, 9 , 70

Forster, E. M., 117

Fortune , 36 , 37 , 214

Foster, William Z., 23

Franco, Francisco, 146

Frank, Waldo, 5 , 36 , 91

Frankfurt School (Institut für Sozialforschung), 65 -66, 97 , 155 , 177 , 216

Franklin, Benjamin, 3

Franklin, James, 3

Free Speech Movement, 168

Freedom House Conference. See Americans for Intellectual Freedom, counter-conference

Freeman , 5

Freeman, Joseph, 6

French Revolution, 231 -32

Friedman, Milton, 26 , 168


283

Freud, Sigmund, 124 , 126 -27, 179 -80

Fromm, Erich, 66 , 83

Frost, Robert, 121

Fuller, Margaret, 4

Future of Freedom Conference, 108

G

Gans, Herbert, 157 , 182 -83, 267 -68n.65, 268 n.68

Geertz, Clifford, 178

Geltman, Emanuel, 57 , 80 -81, 83 , 204

Genteel Tradition, 4 -5

George, Henry, 6

Gide, André, 120

Gilbert, James Burkhart, xi , xii , 25

Gillin, John, 31

Ginsberg, Allen, 187 , 189 , 192 , 193 , 194

Gitlin, Todd, 204

Gitlow, Benjamin, 103

Glazer, Nathan, 8 , 9 , 64 , 71 , 72 , 86 -90, 163 , 165 -66, 212 , 213 , 236 , 267 n.62;

and complexity, 219 , 224 -25;

and Dissent , 84 -85, 87 -88, 94 , 253 -54n.103;

and New Left, 203 , 204 , 210 ;

and Politics , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58

God That Failed , 33 , 103 , 105 -6, 148 , 194 , 200

Gold, Michael, 6 , 121

Goodman, Paul, 64 , 196 ;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 29 , 30 ;

on the Beats and counterculture, 188 , 190 , 224 , 271 n.18;

and Dissent 82 , 83 ;

and New Left, 208 ;

and Partisan Review , 50 , 63 ;

and Politics , 55 , 56 , 57

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 233

Gramsci, Antonio, 175 -76, 177 , 216

Great Society, 233

Greenberg, Clement, 8 , 9 , 63 , 64 , 158 -64, 266 nn. 41 and 42;

art, 137 , 139 -40, 160 -62, 265 -66n.32, 269 n.84;

on mass culture, 151 , 153 , 157 , 158 , 163 -64, 183 ;

and World War II, 51

Grimms' tales, 171

Gunn, Giles, 122 , 178 , 260 n.61, 275 n.95

Gutman, Herbert, 177

H

Hall, Stuart, 177 , 178 , 184 , 275 n.94

Hamilton, Alexander, 6

Hardwick, Elizabeth, 236

Hardy, Thomas, 70

Harlem Renaissance, 5

Harper's , 4 , 152

Harrington, Michael, 76 , 83 , 204

Harris, Zellig, 56

Hartz, Louis, 216

Harvard University, 6 , 18 , 31 , 33 , 37 , 88 , 97 , 117 , 126 , 214

Hatch, Robert, 148

Hausknecht, Murray, 130 -34, 140 , 147 , 165 -66, 204 -5, 262 n.108, 263 n.125, 267 n.62

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 12 , 117 , 124 , 158

Hayden, Tom, 203 , 204

Hayek, Friedrich, 96 -97, 256 n.141

Heidelberg University, 65

Heilbroner, Robert, 6 , 97

Hellman, Lillian, 30

Hemingway, Ernest, 189 , 212 , 245 -46n.99

Hentoff, Nat, 196

Herbert, James, 265 -66n.32

Herder, Johann, 176 , 267 -68n.65

Hicks, Granville, 5 -6, 100 , 102 -3, 114 -15

Hiss, Alger, 111 , 127 -28, 130 , 144 , 148 , 152

Hitchens, Christopher, 201

Hitler, Adolph, xii , 23 , 52 -53, 105 , 146 , 167

Hocking, Ernest, 31

Hofmann, Hans, 159

Hofstadter, Richard, 6 , 55 , 59 , 60 , 179 , 241 n.24, 269 -70n.89;

and Bell, 212 , 214 , 274 n.86;

Bell on, 59 , 125 , 222 ;

on complexity and the tragic sense of life, 125 ;

and consensus, 216 -17;

and fear of the masses, 222 , 263 n.113;

and New Left, 205 -7, 222

Hoggart, Richard, 177


284

Holocaust, 222

Hook, Sidney, xiii , 7 , 8 , 15 -35, 72 , 97 , 236 , 247 n.1;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom (Waldorf Conference), 1 -3, 15 -17, 28 -34, 41 -47;

and Bell, 212 , 214 -16;

and counterculture, 224 ;

and Dissent , 84 -85, 88 , 92 , 146 ;

on ex-Communism, 104 , 107 -8, 110 , 127 -28, 133 , 134 , 145 -47, 258 n.19, 263 nn. 118 and 125;

and Howe, 23 , 63 , 76 , 250 n.46, 252 n.79;

and Macdonald, 35 , 63 , 250 n.45;

on mass culture, 151 , 170 -75, 181 , 267 n.62;

and New Left, 202 , 206 , 207 , 209 -10, 228 -29;

and Partisan Review , 49 -55;

and Podhoretz, 194 , 200 , 202 , 230 ;

and Harold Rosenberg, 135 , 140 -43, 262 n.108;

and tragic sense of life, 102 , 125 -26, 219 ;

and Lionel Trilling, 117 , 119 , 120 ;

and World War II, 38 , 50 -55, 66 ;

in 1930s and 1940s, 61 -64, 67 , 110 , 121 , 127 ;

in 1950s, 79 , 84 -85, 90 -91, 93 , 100 -101, 115 , 116 , 133 ;

in 1970s and 1980s, 230 , 234 , 278 n.7

Hoover, Herbert, 73 , 232

Hoover, J. Edgar, 263 n.125

Horkheimer, Max, 65 -66, 87 , 155 , 216

Horowitz, David, 257 n.3

Hoselitz, Bert, 83

House Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S., 104 , 105 , 110

Hovde, Bryn, 33

Howe, Irving, 8 , 9 , 12 , 69 -86, 121 , 122 , 161 , 163 , 194 , 220 , 223 , 234 ;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 29 , 30 ;

on the Beats, 191 ;

on Morris Cohen, 18 ;

and Commentary , 64 , 77 -79, 115 ;

on conformity in 1950s, 77 -79, 121 ;

and Dissent in 1950s, 79 -85, 92 -96, 98 -100;

on ex-Communism, 104 -5, 106 -7, 146 , 257 n.7;

and Hook, 23 , 26 -27, 63 , 76 , 250 n.46, 252 n.79;

and Labor Action , 57 , 135 ;

on mass culture, 154 , 174 , 267 n.62;

and New Left, 203 , 204 , 208 -11, 223 , 225 ;

on Partisan Review and World War II, 51 , 53 ;

and Politics , 55 , 60 -61

Howells, William Dean, 4

Huberman, Leo, 93 , 95

Hughes, Langston, 5

Hulsenbeck, Richard, 136 -37

Hunter College, 118

Hurston, Zora Neale, 5

Hurwitz, Henry, 117

I

Ideology, end of. See End of Ideology

Imagist poetry, 37

Institute for Social Research, 216 .

See also Frankfurt School

Institute of Defense Analysis, 205

International Menorah Society, 117

Irving, Washington, 3

J

Jackson, Donald, 105

Jacoby, Russell, 234 -36

James, Henry, 4 , 103 , 117 , 124 , 161

James, William, 18 , 19 , 126 , 219

Jarrell, Randall, xi

Jaspers, Karl, 65

Jeffers, Robinson, 160

Jefferson, Thomas, 6 , 92 , 169 , 174 , 175

Jewish Theological Seminary, 23 , 31 , 194

John Reed Club, 49

Johnson, James Weldon, 5

Johnson, Lyndon, 182 , 226

Josephson, Matthew, 5

Joyce, James, 121 , 161

K

Kafka, Franz, 121

Kahn, Albert, 41

Kallen, Horace, 29 , 126

Kant, Immanuel, 162 , 218

Kapitsa, P. L., 32

Kaplan, Rabbi Mordecai, 31

Kazin, Alfred, 8 , 9 , 59 , 64 , 72 -74, 77 , 80 , 234 , 235 , 257 n.9;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 29 -30;

and Arendt, 65 ;

on the Beats,


285

189 , 191 ;

on ex-Communism, 105 , 128 ;

and Glazer, 89 ;

and identification with American culture, 55 , 72 -74;

and literary criticism, 12 , 69 , 72 -74, 161 ;

and Macdonald, 60 ;

on mass culture, 155 -56, 267 n.62;

and Plaza Conference, 230 -31;

and Lionel Trilling, 119 -20, 121

Kelland, Clarence Burlington, 46

Kennedy, John F., 182 , 226

Kenyon Review , 191

Kerouac, Jack, 187 -89, 193 , 194

Kerr, Clark, 225

Keynes, John Maynard, 95 -96, 109 , 126 , 218

Khrushchev, Nikita, 93 , 165 , 191

Kirchwey, Freda, 41 -43, 45 -47, 114

Kirk, Grayson, 205

Kirkpatrick, Jeanne, 231

Kissinger, Henry, 201

Knight, Frank, 6 , 97 , 168 , 239 n.15

Koestler, Arthur, 97 , 106 , 109 , 140 , 219 , 258 n.19

Kramer, Hilton, 236

Krim, Seymour, 136 , 140

Kristol, Irving, xiii , 7 , 8 , 9 , 26 , 57 , 71 , 72 , 88 , 221 , 227 -28, 267 n.50;

and Commentary , 64 , 274 n.86;

and Encounter , 110 ;

and ideology, 108 , 231 -32;

and Politics , 55 ;

and Public Interest , 219

Kronstadt rebellion, 212 , 219

Krueger, Maynard, 213

Kurtz, Paul, 21

Kuttner, Robert, 236

L

Labor Action , 57 , 61 , 135

Lange, Oscar, 97

Lardner, Ring, 5

Lasch, Christopher, 178 , 179 -82, 269 n.84

Laski, Harold, 14 , 56

Lasky, Melvin, 26 , 71

Laughlin, James, 162

Lazarsfeld, Paul, 87

Lea, Henry, 19

League Against Totalitarianism, 50

League for Cultural Freedom and Socialism, 50 , 69

League of Professional Groups for Foster and Ford, 23

Lears, T. J. Jackson, 180

Leavis, Frank Raymond, 9 , 123

Lecky, William, 19

Ledeen, Michael, 220

Lekachman, Robert, 7 , 97

Lenin, Nikolay, 37 , 85

Lerner, Max, 80 , 225

Letters tradition, 4 -8, 235 -36

Levitas, Sol, 215

Lewisohn, Ludwig, 117

Liberator , 5

Library of Congress, 191

Lippmann, Walter, 7 , 56 , 119 , 126

Lipset, Seymour Martin, 8 , 9 , 12 , 57 , 71 , 87 , 165 -66, 204 , 211 , 214

Locke, Alain, 5

London, Jack, 18

London School of Economics, 97

Long, Huey, 276 -77n.108

Lost Generation, 5 , 160

Lowell, Amy, 5

Lowell, James Russell, 4

Lowell, Robert, 208

Lowenthal, Leo, 66 , 155 , 216

Luce, Henry, 36

Lukes, Steven, 267 n.51

Luxemburg, Rosa, 160

Lynd, Robert, 20 , 31 , 80

Lynd, Staughton, 196 , 204

Lynn, Kenneth, 245 -46n.99

Lyons, Eugene, 50

M

McCarthy, Joseph, xii , 39 , 78 , 79 , 84 , 276 -77n.108

McCarthy, Mary, 8 , 9 , 37 , 38 , 64 , 72 , 142 , 168 , 234 , 236 , 247 n.1;

and The Critic , 80 ;

on ex-Communism, 128 -30;

and Partisan Review , 50

McCarthyism, 44 , 78 -79, 87 , 104 , 133 , 166 , 168 , 214 , 232

McClure's , 7

Macdonald, Dwight, xi , 8 , 9 , 35 -41, 72 , 135 , 230 , 234 , 235 , 247 n.1;


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Macdonald, Dwight (continued )

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 16 , 29 -30, 33 , 34 , 40 -41, 46 -47;

and Arendt, 65 ;

and Bell, 213 -14, 262 n.108;

on Commentary , 64 ;

and Dissent , 81 -82, 85 ;

and Encounter , 110 ;

and Glazer, 87 ;

and Hook, 23 , 63 , 250 n.45;

and literature, 121 ;

on mass culture, 152 , 153 , 154 -55, 156 , 157 , 169 , 174 , 183 ;

and New Left, 207 -8;

and Partisan Review , 49 -55, 139 -40, 159 ;

and Politics , 55 -61, 66 -69, 75 -76, 79 -82, 213 , 249 nn. 24 and 25;

Riesman on, 58 , 78 ;

and Harold Rosenberg, 136 , 142 , 262 n.107;

and World War II, 38 , 50 -55

Macdonald, Nancy, 55 , 56 , 135 , 249 n.25, 262 n.107

McGovern, George, 199 , 201

MacLeish, Archibald, 91 , 121 , 157 , 255 n.124

Mad , 264 n.1

Madisonianism, 76 , 125 , 175

Mailer, Norman, 8 , 9 , 31 , 55 , 69 , 72 , 80 , 83 , 198 ;

on the Beats and counterculture, 187 -90;

and New Left, 208

Malraux, André, 97 , 109

Mannheim, Karl, 216

Maratain, Jacques, 22 -23

Marcus, Steven, 194

Marcuse, Herbert, 66 , 181

Market socialism, 95 -97, 256 nn. 139 and 141

Marquart, Frank, 56 , 83

Marsalka, John, 14

Marshall, Margaret, 40 -42, 46 , 79

Marx, Karl,

influence of, 72 , 85 , 166 , 217 , 241 n.25;

on Coser, 58 ;

on Dewey and Hook, 20 , 21 , 27 , 28 , 117 ;

on Dissent , 95 -96;

on Macdonald, 37 ;

on mass culture, 154 , 155 ;

on Lionel Trilling, 119 , 120 , 126 -27

Marx-Engels Institute, Moscow, 19

Masses , 5 , 7

Masses, fear of the, xiii , 13 , 151 -52, 157 , 164 -65, 169 -75, 185 , 192 , 219 , 222 , 237 n.4, 263 n.113, 276 -77n.108

Matthews, Joseph B., 103

Melville, Herman, 74 ;

and Billy Budd , 112

Mencken, Henry Lewis, 5 , 37

Menorah Journal , 8 , 63 -64, 117 , 127

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 32

Merton, Robert, 87 , 166

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 73

Mill, John Stuart, 225

Mills, C. Wright, 58 -59, 79 , 82 , 83 , 87 , 94 , 168 , 212 , 213 , 214 , 274 n.86

Milton, John, 3

Mises, Ludwig von, 96 -97, 256 n.141

Modernism, xiv , 121 -22, 137 -39, 142 -43, 154 , 160 -61, 180 , 182 , 184 , 221 , 223 , 247 n.3, 269 n.84

Modern Monthly , 6

Monthly Review , 93

Moore, Barrington, 213

Moore, Marianne, 160

More, Paul Elmer, 5

Morris, George, 38 , 50

Moscow Trials, 8 , 38 , 47 , 52 , 68 , 112 , 130 , 146

Mount Holyoke College, 69

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 88

Mumford, Lewis, 7 , 20 , 235

Murdock, Kenneth, 31

Mussolini, Benito, 146

Muste, A. J., 25 , 33 , 40 , 43 , 83

Myth-symbol school of American studies, 275 n.95

N

Nashville Agrarians, 5 , 7 , 154

Nation , 7 , 24 , 38 -39, 79 , 84 , 114 , 159 -60, 167 , 196 , 201 ;

and Waldorf Conference, 40 -43, 44 -45

National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 15

National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, 14 -15, 45

National Endowment for the Arts, 143


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National Interest , 8 , 233

National Recovery Administration, 62

Naturalism, literary, 50

Nazism, 25 , 56 , 65 , 68 , 276 -77n.108

Nazi-Soviet Pact, 68 , 102

Neoconservatism, xiii , 122 , 185 , 199 -202, 211 , 219 , 220 , 225 , 231 -33, 237 -38n.4, 245 -46n.99, 254 n.107

Neumann, Franz, 66 , 216

Nevins, Allan, 6 , 216

New Criterion , 8 , 233

New Criticism, 70 , 124 , 161 , 191 , 275 n.95

New Deal, 31 , 36 , 62 , 135 , 145 , 147 , 183

New England Courant , 3

New Humanism, 5

New International , 86

New Leader , 8 , 39 , 86 -87, 212 , 213 -14

New Left, xiii , 22 , 103 , 165 , 168 , 186 , 191 , 193 , 196 , 202 -11, 225 -29, 231 , 257 n.3, 272 n.44, 276 -77n.108;

and Berkeley, 205 ;

and Columbia, 205 -8;

in culture, 175 , 177 , 179 , 233 , 234 , 235

New Masses , 6 , 49 , 121

New Republic , 5 , 6 , 7 , 22 , 38 -39, 107 , 167

New School for Social Research, 29 , 33 , 135

New Yorker , 40 , 67 , 82 , 122 , 135 , 140 , 142 , 152 , 156 , 195

New York Herald Tribune , 2 , 33

New York Post , 42 , 58

New York Public Library, 135

New York Review of Books , 8 , 168 , 199

New York Times , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 43 -44, 104 , 136

New York Times Magazine , 28 , 108 , 234

New York University, 2 , 19 , 24 , 43 , 51 , 97 , 183

Niebuhr, Reinhold, xiv , 20 , 22 , 91 -92, 102 , 125 -26, 142 , 215 -16, 219 , 222

Nixon, Richard, 197 , 226

Norris, George, 225

North American Review , 4

Norton, Charles Eliot, 4

Norton, Mary Herter, 53 -54

O

O'Brien, Conor Cruise, 201

Office of War Information, 56 -57, 135

Oglesby, Carl, 204

Oppenheimer, Robert, 168

Orlans, Harold, 56 , 80 , 83 , 86

Ortega y Gasset, José, 164

Orwell, George, 40 , 97 , 109 , 200

P

Pachter, Henry, 83

Paine, Thomas, 125

Pantukhov, Igor, 159

Pareto, Vilfredo, 256 n.141

Parker, Dorothy, 5

Parker, Theodore, 4

Parkman, Francis, 6

Parrington, Vernon, 6 , 123 -24

Parsons, Talcott, 11 , 165 -66, 216 , 267 n.51, 275 n.93

Partisan Review , 8 , 24 , 25 , 37 , 38 , 72 , 105 , 134 , 159 , 160 , 161 , 163 , 219 , 236 , 250 n.46;

on the Beats, 187 , 188 , 189 , 192 ;

founding of, 49 -51, 129 , 139 -40;

and World War II, 38 , 50 -55, 248 n.8;

in 1940s, 56 , 57 , 61 , 63 , 66 , 77 , 82 , 86 , 110 , 121 , 127 , 158 , 159 , 162 , 223 ;

in 1950s, 77 -79, 90 , 91 -93, 95 , 122 , 164 , 171 , 195 , 230 ;

in 1960s, 178 , 179 , 197 ;

in 1970s and 1980s, 180 , 220 , 234

Pavlenko, P. A., 46

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 4

Peacemakers, 43

Peace Through Liberty Day, 34

Peirce, Charles Sanders, 19

Perspectives , 162

Petersen, William, 84 , 85 , 88

Phillips, William, 8 , 24 , 26 , 38 , 48 , 69 , 72 , 121 , 122 , 159 , 168 , 197 -98, 220 , 234 , 250 n.46;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 29 ,


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32 ;

on mass culture, 157 , 170 ;

and Partisan Review , 49 -55, 127 , 139 -40, 160 , 247 n.3;

and World War II, 50 -55, 66

Picasso, Pablo, 121

Plastrik, Stanley, 57 , 80 -81, 83 , 92 , 204 , 263 n.118

Plaza Conference, 230 -31, 234

PM , 38 -39

Podhoretz, Norman, xiii , 8 , 26 , 55 , 117 , 122 , 163 , 193 -203, 211 , 221 , 225 , 236 , 274 n.86, 276 n.104;

and the Beats, 188 -90, 192 , 194 ;

and New Left, 203 ;

and Vietnam, 196 -200;

in 1970s and 1980s, 230 -31, 233 , 234

Poe, Edgar Allan, 105

Politics , 8 , 38 , 55 -61, 67 -69, 75 -76, 79 -82, 86 , 213 , 249 nn. 24 and 25

Pollock, Jackson, 121 , 161 , 162

Polsky, Ned, 190

Pope, Alexander, 3

Popper, Martin, 1 , 2

Populism, opposition to, 13 , 141 , 181 , 192 , 214 , 222 , 237 n.4, 263 n.113

Port Huron Statement, 203 , 205

Postmodernism, 9 , 178 -79, 182 , 216 , 234 , 275 nn. 94 and 95;

and Hook, 27 -28;

and Howe, 70 ;

and Harold Rosenberg, 139

Pound, Ezra, 5

Pragmatism, xi ;

against ideology, xii , xiv , 106 -7, 109 , 112 , 115 , 143 , 149 , 193 , 221 , 226 -29, 278 n.7;

and Bell, 217 , 218 , 219 ;

and culture, 137 , 170 ;

and Dewey, 19 -22, 72 , 126 ;

and Glazer, 224 -25;

and Hook, 19 -23, 27 -28, 43 , 76 , 79 , 125 -26, 170 , 224 , 252 n.79, 278 n.7;

and Howe, 76 , 106 -7, 252 n.79;

and Kristol, 219 , 231 -32;

and Macdonald, 37 ;

and proper radicalism, 226 -29;

and Rahv, 106 -7;

and tragic sense, 124 -26;

and Lionel Trilling, 112 , 124 -26

Prescott, William, 6

Princeton University, 37 , 135 , 205

Progressive historians, 125

Public Interest , 8 , 88 , 219 , 220 , 226

R

Rahv, Philip, 8 , 63 , 64 , 70 , 72 , 117 , 223 , 234 , 247 n.1, 250 n.46;

on ex-Communism, 105 , 106 ;

on Hook, 26 ;

Kazin on, 60 ;

and Partisan Review , 38 , 49 , 69 , 78 , 127 , 139 -40, 160 , 247 n.3, 250 n.46;

and Lionel Trilling, 120 , 121 , 122 ;

and World War II, 50 -55, 66 , 247 n.1;

in 1950s, 77 , 91

Ransom, John Crowe, 5 , 124 , 191

Readers' Digest , 152

Reagan, Ronald, 231

Reed, John, 7 , 36

Reed College, 187

Reuther, Walter, 70

Rexroth, Kenneth, 187 , 191

Rieff, Philip, 180 , 213

Riesman, David, 57 -58, 66 , 78 , 87 , 101 , 115 , 165 -66, 167 , 208 , 213 , 222 , 276 -77n.108;

on mass culture, 151 , 170 , 171 , 173 , 174 -75, 181

Roberts, Kenneth, 267 -68n.65

Rockwell, Norman, 152

Rodman, Selden, 56

Romanticism:

defined, 237 n.3;

of New York group, occasional, 154 -57, 187 -93, 218 ;

opposition to, xiii , 13 , 73 , 164 -65, 187 , 204 , 218 , 221 -29, 260 n.61

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 144

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 31

Rosenberg, Bernard, 78 , 80 -81, 83 , 98 , 165 -66, 204 ;

on mass culture, 153 -54, 155 , 156 , 157 , 164 -65, 267 n.62

Rosenberg, Harold, 8 , 9 , 72 , 134 -43, 167 , 234 ;

on action painting, 136 -39, 153 , 162 ;

and Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 29 , 30 ;

and art, 136 -39, 142 -43, 158 , 160 , 161 , 162 ;

and Bell, 140 , 262 n.108;

and Commentary , 64 ;

on containment, 93 -94;

and Coser, 57 ;

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Dissent , 83 ;

on ex-Communism, 128 , 130 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 -49;

and Greenberg, 137 , 139 , 140 , 162 -63;

and Hook, 93 , 140 -42, 262 n.108;

on intellectuals, 12 , 99 -100, 227 , 235 ;

on mass culture, 152 -53, 156 , 157 , 263 n.113;

and Partisan Review , 49 -50, 63 ;

on tradition of the new, 137 -39, 142 -43, 184 ;

on Lionel Trilling, 119 -20, 121

Rovere, Richard, 50 , 79 , 80

Royce, Josiah, 18

Rozhansky, Ivan, 32

Rudd, Mark, 205

S

Saint Lawrence University, 135

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 32

Saturday Review , 28

Schapiro, Meyer, 8 , 9 , 52 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 72 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 160 , 161 , 162

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 6 , 33 , 59 -60, 80 , 236

Schuman, Frederick, 16 , 242 n.36

Schumpeter, Joseph, 6 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 108 , 182 , 239 n.15, 256 n.141, 276 n.102

Schwartz, Delmore, 24 , 120 , 159 , 191

Seligman, Ben B., 7 , 83 , 95 -97

Selznick, Philip, 87 , 205

Seven Arts , 5

Shachtmanites, 57 , 61 , 8l, 249 n.29

Shakespeare, William, 171

Shapley, Harlow, 1 -2, 14 -17, 32 , 42 -43, 44 , 47 , 228

Shils, Edward, 7 , 165 -69, 213 , 219 , 239 n.15, 262 n.108, 267 nn. 50 and 51;

on mass culture, 151 , 154 -56, 168 , 171 , 175 ;

and sociology, 165 -66

Shostakovich, Dmitri, 14 , 46

Silone, Ignazio, 97 , 105 -6, 109 , 140 , 219 , 258 n.19

Simmel, Georg, 58 , 166

Simons, Henry, 6 , 97

Singer, Milton, 213

Slesinger, Tess, 64

Smith, Adam, 223

Smith College, 16 , 88

Snyder, Gary, 187 , 192

Social Democratic Federation, 212

Social democrats, 26 , 30 , 62 , 86 , 91 , 99 , 107 , 207 , 211 , 212 , 215 , 221

Socialist Party, 18 , 23 , 62

Sociology:

conflict theory, 57 -58, 165 -66, 216 ;

ethnographic and community studies, 87 ;

structural functionalism, 165 -66, 216 , 219 , 267 n.51, 275 n.93;

Weberian, 166

Solow, Herbert, 64

Sontag, Susan, 8 , 139 , 178 -79, 182 , 194 , 197

Sorbonne, 56 , 57

Spectator , 3

Spender, Stephen, 109

Sperber, Manes, 140 , 219

Stalin, Joseph, xii , 24 , 52 , 55 , 93 , 146 -47, 148

Stanford University, 205 , 208 -9

State Department, U.S., 1 , 15 -16, 30 , 94

Stearns, Harold, 5 , 37

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 4

Steffens, Lincoln, 7 , 36

Stein, Gertrude, 5

Steinfels, Peter, xii

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 4

Stravinsky, Igor, 121

Students for a Democratic Society, 204 -6, 208 , 209

Sunday, Billy, 103

Swados, Harvey, 55 , 82 , 83

Sweezy, Paul, 93 , 95

Swope Plan, 62

Symposium , 49

Syracuse University, 158

T

Tate, Allen, 5 , 124

Teachers College, 15

Thackrey, T. O., 42

Third camp:

in democratic socialism, 65 , 66 , 68 , 85 , 90 , 92 -94;

at Dissent , 92 -94;

on World War II, 51 , 53 , 55 , 60

Thomas, Norman, 29 , 62 , 91


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Thompson, E. P., 177 , 178

Thoreau, Henry David, 4 , 39 , 74 , 187

Tikkun , 234

Time , 75 , 264 n.1

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 89 , 157 , 164 , 217

Tolstoy, Leo, 27

Toomer, Jean, 5

Tragic sense of life, xiii , 102 , 104 , 124 -26, 142 , 175 , 199 , 216 , 219 , 224 -25, 237 -38n.4

Treasury Department, U.S., 135

Trilling, Diana, 35 , 38 , 64 , 90 , 114 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 215 ;

and New Left, 206 , 207 , 208

Trilling, Lionel, 8 , 9 , 63 , 72 , 116 -27, 135 , 160 , 161 , 234 , 236 , 260 n.61;

on adversary culture, 122 , 222 -23;

and Bell, 214 ;

on complexity and the tragic sense of life, 124 -26, 142 , 219 ;

and Howe, 69 , 70 , 121 ;

on intellectuals, 12 ;

and liberal conservatism, 99 , 115 ;

and Menorah Journal , 64 ;

and Middle of the Journey , 103 , 110 -13, 121 , 194 ;

and New Left, 205 -6;

and Partisan Review , 52 ;

and Podhoretz, 194 , 198 , 122 ;

and Riesman, 58

Trotsky, Leon, 37 , 38 , 70 , 119 , 160 , 265 -66n.32

Trotskyism, xii , 8 , 23 , 24 -25, 30 , 33 , 37 , 50 , 51 -53, 71 , 75 , 86 , 107 , 167 , 239 n.16, 249 n.29

Truman, Harry, 39

Trumbull, Jonathan, 3

Tugwell, Rexford, 31

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 6

Twain, Mark, 4

U

Union of Soviet Writers, 32

United Auto Workers, 56 , 70

United Nations, 231

University of Birmingham, 177

University of California: at Berkeley, 21 , 88 , 183 , 205 , 207 , 222 , 272 n.44;

at Los Angeles, 14

University of Chicago, 6 , 31 , 57 , 83 , 97 , 135 , 136 , 142 , 167 , 205 , 212 -14

University of London, 14

University of Maryland, 58

University of North Carolina, 31

University of Pennsylvania, 56 , 87

University of Southern Illinois, 135

University of Vienna, 96

University of Washington, 83

University of Wisconsin, 118 , 207

V

van den Haag, Ernest, 171

Vanity Fair , 5

Vassar College, 31 , 37

Veblen, Thorstein, 6

Vietnam War, 94 , 196 -97, 198 , 200 , 233 , 272 n.44

Village Voice , 187 -88, 201

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 43

W

Wadleigh, Julian, 128

Wald, Alan, xii

Waldorf Conference, 1 -3, 13 -17, 28 -35, 40 -49, 51 , 55 , 68 , 69 , 76 , 104 , 150 , 185 , 226 , 228 -29, 230 , 241 n.28, 242 n.37, 244 -45n.85, 246 n.112

Wallace, Henry, 39 , 45

Wall Street Journal , 231

Walzer, Michael, 8 , 83 , 178 , 194 , 204 , 220 , 236

Warren, Robert Penn, 5

Warshow, Robert, 64 , 77 -78, 163

Weber, Max, 58 , 166 , 216 , 219

Welch, Lew, 187

Whalen, Philip, 187

Wharton, Edith, 117

Wheelwright, John, 160

Wheelwright, Philip, 49

White, David Manning, 154 , 155

White, Morton, 126

Whitman, Walt, 4 , 74 , 187 , 192

Wilder, Thornton, 121

Wieser, Friedrich von, 256 n.141

Williams, Raymond, 139 , 173 , 176 -77, 178 , 216 , 241 n.25, 264 -65n.14, 267 -68n.65

Williams, William Carlos, 192


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Wills, Garry, 236

Wilson, Edmund, 5 , 6 , 7 , 26 , 35 , 37 , 41 , 122 -23, 182 , 235 , 238 n.12, 260 n.61

Wilson, Everett, 132

Wilson, Woodrow, 165

Wolfe, Bertram, 29 , 33

Wolfe, Tom, 236

Woodbridge, Frederick J. E., 19

Woodcock, George, 83

Woollcott, Alexander, 5

Works Progress Administration, 135 , 159 , 183

World Congress of Partisans of Peace, 34

Wreszin, Michael, 249 nn. 24 and 25 , 262 n.107

Wright, Richard, 6 , 32

Wrong, Dennis, xiv , 59 , 165 -66, 227

Y

Yale University, 14 , 36 , 37 , 58 , 63 , 118 , 196

Young People's Socialist League, 56 , 71 , 212


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Preferred Citation: Jumonville, Neil. Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9w1009t9/