Peace Agitator, by Nat Hentoff by Harris Dienstfrey A. J. Muste--Abraham Johannes--the well-known pacifist, has been an active American radical for over fifty years. If one reads between…
Outsiders, by Howard S. Becker by Harris Dienstfrey "Outsiders," Howard S. Becker's study of deviance, is mostly an insider's view. Becker belongs to the group of sociologists, usually…
Doctors, Lawyers & Other TV Heroes by Harris Dienstfrey Television drama lately has developed a new kind of hero, the professional man.
Down There on a Visit, by Christopher Isherwood by Harris Dienstfrey DESPITE ALL THAT Christopher Isherwood achieves in his new novel-with its lucid, barely tense prose and its complex structure -Down…
The New American Cinema by Harris Dienstfrey The intention of the makers of this film was to create a situation whereby one might comply with James Agee's…
Culture and Social Character, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal by Harris Dienstfrey As PRACTICALLY everyone must know by now, David Riesman's sociological study, The Lonely Crowd, argued that the American national character…
Two Views of “Judgment At Nuremberg” by Harris Dienstfrey "JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG" Judgment at Nuremberg, a three-hour film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and written by Abby Mann,…
The Success of Ingmar Bergman by Harris Dienstfrey Two facts define the phenomenon of Ingmar Bergman: the twenty-one films he has made since 1945 (he wrote fourteen himself,…
Literature & the Press, by Louis Dudek by Harris Dienstfrey "Literature and the Press," by Louis Dudek, mainly concerns itself with the development of print in England.
The Novels of Vance Bourjaily by Harris Dienstfrey The four novels of Vance Bourjaily have not received much attention, partly, I think, because they have not been properly…
The Study of Man: Sizing Up the Mass Media by Harris Dienstfrey One way of approaching an evaluation of the mass media is to ask whether it sees the media as an…
Evidence of Love, by Dan Jacobson by Harris Dienstfrey IT IS impossible to read any of Dan Jacobson's four novels without feeling how strongly they are suffused by his…
