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all administrators, "This could be you."
Edith Kurzweil:
Thank you. We have four speakers at the next session,
and again we're going to have questions at the end. I'm going to intro–
duce the speakers: first, Stanley Crouch. He is the author of
Notes oj a
Han,RinJ? Jlld<f?e: A Collection oj Essays on Race Relations and Democracy in
America
and is a noted jazz and cultural criti c, teacher and lecturer. He
has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award,
a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Jean Stein Award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. He is working on a novel and a biography
of Charlie Parker.
Next is Eugene Genovese, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the
University Center in Georgia. He is the author of
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The
World the Slaves Made,
and his newest book
The SOllthern Tradition: The
Achiel'emellt and Lilllitations oj an American Conservatism,
will be published
this GIl.
Next to him is Martin Peretz; he has been Editor-in-Chief of
The
Nell' Repllblic
since
1974.
He has received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy
honoris callsa
from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as
well as many other honorary degrees, and in
1982
was awarded the
Jerusalem Medal. He is past chairman and now honorary chairman of the
Jerusalem Foundation, and he is a director of the Fund for an Open
Society.
Last is Jim Sleeper, a columnist for the New York
Daily NeuJS
who
writes frequently on urban affairs. From
1988
to
1993
he was on the edi–
torial board of
New York NelIJsday.
His essays and review have appeared
in
The Nelv Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The
Natioll, The New Rep"blic, Commol1llJeal,
and other publications. He has
taught at Harvard University, Queens College, and New York
University, and he is the author of
The Closest oj Strangers: Liberalism and
the Politics oj Race in New York.
Stanley Crouch:
My first comment is, what a bowtie, Saul, what a
bowtie! I'm going to read what I have written and then put an impro–
vised coda on it.
I distrust autobiography when large issues are discussed, because it
assumes that the writer's experience is equal to the subject under discus–
sion. But, being a modern man and a citizen of New York, I have cho–
sen to submit to contemporary custom, and have put together a collage
of writing about anti-Semitism. Before I begin, however, I would like
to make a suggestion. I believe that the article of speech, "T-H-E,"
