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In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.
Curiously, if you look at the wonderful anthology of parodies that Dwight Macdonald put together long ago, you will find a burlesque of sociologese by Daniel Bell, called "The Parameters of Social Movements: A Formal Paradigm," which was allegedly a revision of an earlier scheme titled "The Configurative Patterning of Social Movements."
Tucci had been a follower of Gentile, but broke with fascism during the war and became a member of Dwight Macdonald's circle around Politics , where I met him.
And what about those journalistic models--Orwell, Dwight Macdonald, Cyril Connolly--who never, strictly speaking, wrote a real prose book?
-- Dwight K. Lemke