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Article: THE TWILIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS: CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR.(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- January 1, 2000
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THE TWILIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS: CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR. By HILTON KRAMER. Ivan R. Dee. 363 pp. $27.50.
IN THE SUMMER Or 1952, Hilton Kramer's life took a fateful turn. While attending a program known as the "School of Letters" in Indiana--where he had gone to study Dante with Allen Tate and Shakespeare with Francis Fergusson--the young Kramer met Philip Rahv, one of the founding editors of Partisan Review. Partisan Review was then in its heyday as one of America's leading journals of politics and culture, decidedly left of center and yet consistently anti-Stalinist. A few months after meeting Rahv, Kramer submitted an essay to Partisan ...