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LIONEL ABel
by the way, that people can be united by revulsion: clubs are formed
by people who like to eat, and not by people who have to vomit. Come
to think of it, though, a club might be formed by people who
like
to
vomit.) Nor is Mr. Brustein in favor, that
I
know of, of any kind of
social organization, or reorganization. He is of course entitled to dislike
the present state of things, and to describe it as blackly as rhetoric al–
lows: all I want to point out here is that if he is right in his cultural
disgust, which is extreme, then art for him can be no palliative. For
him it must be absurd to dispraise or commend anything as art; given
his
views, Mr. Brustein is right to support
MacBird.
Dwight Macdonald
is not.
Lionel Abel
EDITORS' NOTE : MacBird
seems to be becoming an intellectual and
political
cause celebre.
PR
would be glad to print further comment
on the play in future issues.
