Nathan Glazer, in The New York Times Book Review (Feb. 26, 1984), Intellectuals P.O. Box 508, Hackensack, N.J. 07602.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, a small band of intellectuals in New York City hotly debated questions that nobody else cared about in obscure magazines that nobody else read. Today, some of those writers, while not household names, informally advise presidents and enjoy the status of minor media celebrities.
Glazer, a Harvard sociologist, is an alumnus of the New York world populated...