>http://www.yorku.ca/lefthist/online/arguetw.html
> Given the anti-Semitic quotas and high tuitions of Ivy League
>universities, the four men ended up being educated at City College
>in New York, which was close to home and free. Here they battled
>against both the obtusely reactionary administration (which invited
>fascist speakers in the late 1930s) and many of their fellow student
>radicals (who tended to be in the orbit of the Communist Party). The
>feverish political atmosphere allowed the four men to hone their
>debating skills. Their education was furthered by contact with the
>older generation of writers associated with Partisan Review, a
>magazine that combined Trotskyist politics with high literary
>standards.
And they all moved to the right. Gotta be careful with that anti-Stalinism - it often has toxic side-effects.
Doug