Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim

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231 Index Agee, James, 6, 8, 30, 70 America: and blacks, 96, 112, 117–28; and failure, 177–89; and Jews, 16, 43–44, 112, 162, 194, 201, 209, 217; Krim’s love for, xxiii, 16, 43, 59, 194; and New Journalism, xx, 75–76; and the novel, 44, 58–68; and success, 134, 143, 145, 149–50, 168 American Jewish Committee, 10 Amundsen, Roald, 62 anarchists, 4 Anderson, Sherwood, 44, 60, 122 Ayden, Erje, 74 Baez, Joan, 147 Baker, Dorothy, 60 Baldwin, James, xix, xxiv, xxvii, 51, 94, 111, 147, 157 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 117, 125 Barrett, Will, 6 Bazelon, Dave, 6 Beats, the: Allen Ginsberg and, xxxiii; and Jewish writing, xxxiii; Krim and, xxv–xxvii, 121 Begin, Menahem, xxxii, 193–95 Bellow, Saul: intellectuals and, 3, 6, 83; as Jewish writer, xxix, xxxii, xxxv, xxxviii; Noble Savage and, 3; and similarities with Krim, xviii, xix, xxiv, 3, 78, 95, 131, 161, 196 Berkeley, 121 Bible, 41, 45 Blackmur, R. P., xxi, 9, 13, 33 blacks: angry at whites, 119–20, 125; anxieties of discussing, 101; in Harlem, 97, 104–6, 114–16; and intellectuals, 122–23; and jazz, xxvi, 95–99; Jewish camaraderie with, 93, 103, 114–15; Jewish perception of, 103, 112; Jews’ imitation of, 96, 99; and Krim, 100–116; Krim’s view of, xxvi; Krim’s vindication regarding, xxvii; and manliness, 107, 109; and obscenities, 106, 116, 117–28; racism toward, 113, 120; sartorial style of, 106; as sex object, 103; and slang, 96; social pathologies of, 96–97, 110, 115; suffering of, 111–12, 124; white attraction to, 114–15; white imitation of, 98, 102, 121–22; white romanticizing of, 97, 99 Blake, William, 8, 31, 49, 71, 195 Breslin, Jimmy, xx, 153, 169–76 Breuer, Bessie, 60 Brighton Beach, 47 Bronx, xxiii, 4, 41, 46 Brooklyn, 40, 45, 84, 146, 170, 218 Brooklyn College, 46, 84 232 . Index Brooks, Peggy, xxxvii, 138 Brossard, Chandler, 6, 32, 51 Brothers, Joyce, 201–6 Broyard, Anatole, 6, 40, 52, 55, 57 Bruce, Lenny, xxxv, 123, 150, 182 Buber, Martin, 10 Burroughs, William, 71, 123, 163 Byrd, Admiral, 62 Cain, James, 58, 63, 67 Caldwell, Erskine, 59 Cape Cod, 40 CCNY (City College of New York), 46 Central Park West, 45 Chase, Richard, 10 Chayefsky, Paddy, xxiii, 70 Clancy, Bill, 9, 14 Cleaver, Eldridge, 121 Cohen, Elliot, 28 Collier’s, 5 Columbia University, 35, 46, 154, 201 Commentary, x, xxv, 6, 8, 10, 16, 56, 83 Commonweal, x, xxv, 9–10 Congdon, Don, 5 Conroy, Frank, 74 Crane, Hart, 33, 40 Cremer, Jan, 74, 154 Crosby, Bing, 98, 102 Depression, the, xxiii DeWitt Clinton High School, xxiii, 4, 62, 202 di Donato, Pietro, 60 Donne, John, 32, 49 Dos Passos, John, 58, 147 Dreiser, Theodore, 7, 12, 24, 38, 42, 45, 60 Dylan, Bob, xxv, xxxviii, 147 East Village Other, 124 Einstein, Albert, 53 Eliot, T. S., 9–10, 33 Ellison, Ralph, 71, 122, 142 Esquire, 46, 61, 172 Exodus, xxvi, 20 failure: and America, 64, 177–89; causes of, 184–85; disdain for, 133–34, 145, 171; fear of, 13, 133; greatness standards and, 17, 26; and Jewish identity, 131, 147, 162; Krim and, xx, xxi, 13, 69, 175; meaning of, 186; pain of, 136, 184–86, 188–89; and self–hatred, 157; as sin, 133; value of, 160; writing as revenge for, 65–66 Fante, John, 60 Farber, Manny, 6 Farber, Marjorie, 8 Farrell, James T., 24, 58, 61, 72, 122, 147 Faulkner, William, xxii, 7, 44, 58, 61, 63, 71, 137 Felker, Clay, 79, 138 Fiedler, Leslie, 10 Fineman, Irving, 60 Fuchs, Daniel, xxxiv, 60 Gallo, Joey, 167, 170 Ginsberg, Allen, xxvi, xxxiii–xxxiv, 51, 122, 147, 177 Gold, Herbert, xxxiv, 156 Goldman, Emma, 200 Goyen, Bill, 51 Graves, Robert, 13 Greenberg, Clement, 6, 84–85 Greenwich Village: artists in, 87; blacks in, 104; hedonism of, 104; hipsters and, Index . 233 48; intellectuals in, 6, 22, 53, 83–84; Jews in, 46–47; Krim in, 29–30, 93 Hall, Oakley, 60 Halper, Albert, 60 Harris, Richard, 166–67 Harvard, 46 Hemingway, Ernest, xxi, xxiv, 7, 33, 44, 58, 72, 200 Hentoff, Nat, 146 Herbst, Josephine, 60 Hitler, Adolf, 209 Holiday, Billie, 30 Hudson Review, xxi, 11, 13, 54 Huntington Hartford Foundation, 5 intellectuals: vs. anti-intellectualism, 3; blacks and, 122, 126; European influence on, 7–9; greatness standards and, 16–17, 22, 54–55, 57; and jazz, 95; Jews and, 3...