eGad: Re: Wracking it Up TRTR, Pt2 C2 p352ff......Partisan Review

[Richard Ryan]

"There is no mysticism without Mary."  - TR 2.3 p392

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> wrote:

> quite belatedly...
> fascinating stuff!  Thanks, Mark!
>
>
>
> Mark Kohut  wrote:
>
>>  Mary McCarthy was one  of the founders of The Partisan Review. "her
>> novel, The Oasis caricatured the circle of intellectuals, including herself,
>> around
>> Partisan Review.   She and her husband then moved away from NY because "no
>> one was speaking to us"....from the bio.
>>
>>   *From:* Steven Moore <mooresteven at att.net>
>> *To:* gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com
>> *Sent:* Sunday, July 31, 2011 6:18 AM
>> *Subject:* eGad: Re: Wracking it Up TRTR, Pt2 C2 p352ff......Partisan
>> Review
>>
>>
>>  Mark: I'm sure you're right. I've always been vaguely aware of that
>> symposium and always meant to look into it, so thanks for bringing it up.
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Cc:* gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com
>> *Sent:* Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:19 PM
>> *Subject:* eGad: Wracking it Up TRTR, Pt2 C2 p352ff......Partisan Review
>>
>>
>>  p.352..."a small stiff-backed magazine---A symposium on religion! he
>> read from the cover."
>>
>> Almost surely this is an allusion to a mid-1950 [April--June 1950, I
>> believe]  issue of The Partisan Review. It is semi-famous.
>> I, as lame as some of the characters in TR, have had a copy, bought from
>> the street tables of The Strand decades later.
>> (Like the lame characters in TR, I liked to waste time with old literary
>> magazines....I should be--have been---
>> ashamed, smile, but now I can post this knowledge here.....)
>>
>> Below is a much later summary w tidbits about that symposium. It had many
>> of the most famous intellectuals in America, inlcuding
>> art critic Clement Greenburg, so into defining the 'necessary genius' of
>> the abstract expressionists,most famously and
>> where Art should go...the kind of critic who COULD review a work before it
>> was published as in this chapter...(I do
>> not mean to suggest moral failure in Greenburg, know little, but want to
>> suggest he knew the ART world pre-emptively, so
>> to speak)
>>
>> Google it and you will see. Current intellectuals still talking about it,
>> good piece in 2009, it seems.
>>
>>
>> Gaddis might agree with this? (about shallowness) and Recognition shows up
>> once again:
>> "In the 1950s, Partisan Review had a symposium on "Religion and the
>> Intellectuals," and most contributors saw through the shallowness of the
>> religiosity that would mark the Eisenhower years. Religion is secular rather
>> than spiritual, lacking passion and conviction. Will Herberg wrote
>> Protestant-Catholic-Jew to demonstrate that religion in America is a
>> sociological phenomenon with each denomination affording people their
>> identity in a mass society. It could also be used by politicians who
>> scarcely knew whereof they spoke. "Recognition of the Supreme Being,"
>> declared President Eisenhower in 1955, "is the first, most basic expression
>> of Americanism. Without God, there could be no American form of government,
>> nor an American way of life."
>> -------Political/cultural historian named Diggins (if I haven't mixed this
>> up from copy to paste.), I believe, google and confirm if it matters, who
>> wrote a
>> good book on American Liberalism...........
>>
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