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Article: Everyman's intellectual: remembering Irving Howe. (writer)
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- March 22, 1994
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WHILE MOST PEOPLE KNEW IRVING HOWE AS A critic, academic, and writer, I was privileged to know him as a collaborator and friend. Meeting with Irving on a regular basis over a period of several years, I grew to know and appreciate his personal side. I remember Irving at his most poignant when he was living in a furnished room at the Hotel des Artistes on West 66th Street in Manhattan. He was between marriages and, from the look on his face when he opened the door, having a hard time readjusting to bachelorhood. What I saw when I walked in looked more like a Hadassah rummage sale after a busy day than the residence of a distinguished man of letters. With articles of clothing ...
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