A case could be made that conservative arts writing withered & never recovered after Allan Bloom draped culture with funeral crepe.
@JamesWolcott Here I argue that Hilton Kramer-style hatred of pop culture had dire impact: http://www.jeetheer.com/culture/newcriterion.htm …
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@HeerJeet Maybe if Lionel and Diana Trilling had invited him over to watch KOJAK with them--but I guess such things were not meant to be.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Hilton, whom I liked, came up through that Partisan Review generation that regarded pop as the enemy--then came Camp & the Beatles -
@JamesWolcott I have a soft spot for Kramer a little b/c he nurtured lots of good writers but he was really stuck in the 1950s. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet@jameswolcott Bloom, Kramer, et al, developed a "line" on culture that hadn't been in place in, say, NR's Hugh Kenner days. -
@ToryAnarchist@JamesWolcott When Kenner was poetry editor of National Review they published E. Pound, M. Moore, W.C. Williams, Zukofsky.
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@HeerJeet@jameswolcott Coincidentally or not, late '80s is also when horserace politics eclipses the humanistic side of the right's mags. -
@ToryAnarchist@JamesWolcott Don't think it's a coincidence. Shilling for GOP replaced larger conservative intellectual ambitions.
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