Samuel Lipman, 60, a pianist and critic who was publisher of the New Criterion, a conservative journal of the arts, died of leukemia Saturday in New York City. In 1982, Mr. Lipman became publisher of the New Criterion. Previously, he had been known chiefly as a concert pianist and the music critic of Commentary magazine, but he soon became a leader in the neo-conservative movement, writing and lecturing on political and cultural subjects. Four years ago, as the moderator of a symposium on intellectuals in public life, Mr. Lipman deplored the disappearance of intellectuals from government. "One would have to go back to the 1920s, to the Coolidge and Harding administrations, to find a time when intellectuals were as absent from public life as they are today," he said.
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