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Lionel Trilling & the crisis at Columbia.
The seventy-five-page interview with Lionel Trilling conducted in May 1968, which I recently discovered in the Oral History Research Office at Columbia, reveals for the first time his role in the dramatic and sometimes violent uprising at the university. A brilliant teacher, influential critic, and major figure in American intellectual life, Trilling suddenly, moved from difficult books and disturbing ideas to confrontations with revolutionary students. During the most important political engagement of his life, he tested his ideas in the cauldron of reality. Diana Trilling, in her long account of the crisis called "On the Steps of Low Library" (1968), focused on her own ...
- Lionel Trilling in the classroom.(literary critic)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Hart, Jeffrey May 1, 1998 700+ words
...for action against Castro. One warm November afternoon after the election, I met Lionel Trilling in the lovely Van Amringe quadrangle outside Hamilton Hall and he asked me whom I had voted for. Given his usual delicacy of manner, this was...
- A modern Burke: Lionel Trilling was also a liberal reformer of conservative...
- Magazine article from: The American Conservative Hart, Jeffrey March 9, 2009 700+ words
...I began my senior year at Columbia University and signed up for Lionel Trilling's course in 19th-century English literature. It met on the fourth floor of Hamilton Hall, on the north side of Van Amringe quadrangle, the leafy and tranquil...
- Lionel Trilling and the fate of cultural criticism.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Davis, Gorham April 7, 1986 700+ words
Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism By Mark Krupnick Northwestern...Krupnick presented for discussion the first chapter of his new book on Lionel Trilling. Direct, cogent, free of jargon, it is the best account we have...
- Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe; and other stories of literary...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2009 700+ words
9781412810142 Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe; and other stories of literary friendship...Zionism in the dialogues of authors/literary critics Howe and Lionel Trilling. He also discusses similarities between D.H. Lawrence...
- Portrait Of Lionel Trilling
- Picture from: Getty Images Pictorial Parade January 1, 1970 700+ words
Pictorial Parade Getty Images 01-01-1970 Portrait Of Lionel Trilling Full Size JPG (3152 KB) Portrait of American writer and critic Lionel Trilling in a suit and tie with his glasses in his breast pocket, circa 1970. (Photo by Pictorial...
- He Gave Liberalism A Good Name.(Lionel Trilling )(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek McCarter, Jeremy October 6, 2008 700+ words
Byline: Jeremy McCarter Lionel Trilling wasn't just a critic. He traced--brilliantly--the...diligent, bighearted, visionary. Some are even heroes. Lionel Trilling is a hero--one of my heroes, anyway. And for the Trilling...
- Gertrude Himmelfarb: The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Kimball, Roger April 1, 2006 700+ words
...Himmelfarb The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling. Ivan R. Dee, 259 pages, $26 Readers of Gertrude Himmelfarb...Moral Imagination is an homage to teachers--not only to Lionel Trilling, Himmelfarb's friend and mentor, but also a panoply...
- Jewish intellectuals and the "deep places of the imagination".(Lionel Trilling)
- Shofar Krupnick, Mark March 22, 2003 700+ words
...and intellect characteristic of the very greatest art. Lionel Trilling is a keystone figure here, one cut off from his Jewish...questions that I explore in the pages that follow. It was Lionel Trilling, in his most influential book, The Liberal Imagination...