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WE ARE ALL propagators of modernity as well as its victims--it's not something outside us. To condemn it is to condemn ourselves. Saul Bellow did not condemn it; rather he revelled in it, but he was never an eager trendy and always exercised discrimination about the new. He gradually developed a critique of his times, but always from the inside. A rueful survivor, he was too wily to accept the kaleidoscopic chaos whirling about him.
In the late 1960s and the 1970s US society seemed to go mad--the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, the Newark and Watts riots, student invasions, anti-Vietnam protests, teach-ins, the great march on Washington, ...