Table of Contents

Volume 10, Number 2 · February 1, 1968

Noel Annan, The Survivor

Downhill All The Way by Leonard Woolf

Elizabeth Hardwick, The Whole Hog

The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler, Directed by Edwin Sherin. produced by Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.)

Ernst Gombrich, How Do You Know It's Any Good?

On Quality in Art: Criteria of Excellence Past and Present (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1964) by Jakob Rosenberg

Neal Ascherson, Unmodern Men

Society and Democracy in Germany by Ralf Dahrendorf

Between Eagle and Swastika: German Nationalism Since 1945 by Kurt P. Tauber

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Du côté de chez Podhoretz

Making It by Norman Podhoretz

A.J.P. Taylor, The Great Schism of Our Age

Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking Containment and Counterrevolution at Versailles 1918-1919 by Arno J. Mayer

Florence Howe, Paul Lauter, The School Mess

Toward Creating a Model School System: A Study of the Washington, D.C. Public Schools by A. Harry Passow. and Others

Lawrence Stone, Lo-Marx

The English: A History of Politics and Society to 1760 by Norman F. Cantor

Denis Donoghue, Fabulous Salad

Wallace Stevens: The Making of Harmonium by Robert Buttel

Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure by Ronald Sukenick

Stanley Hoffmann, Memoirs of a Disappointed Man

Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault translated by Marianne Sinclair

Chad Walsh, William X, Noam Chomsky, An Exchange on Resistance

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Letters

Penelope Gilliatt, Elizabeth Hardwick, Lark Pie
Barney Rosset, LeRoi Jones

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

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