Hilton Kramer, A Man of Arts & Letters
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The 25th anniversary season of the New Criterion, a monthly journal devoted to the arts and intellectual life, was the occasion for a dinner in honor of its founder, Hilton Kramer.
“More than any other critic of our time – more energetically, more relentlessly, more brilliantly, more courageously – Hilton has stood out against the degradation of modernism in the arts and the symbiotic degradation of liberalism in politics and culture,” Commentary magazine editor-at-large Norman Podhoretz said at the dinner.
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