Subject: Re: eggheads (..and almost Easter)
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 20:13:44 EDT
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Paul Kennedy wrote:
> intellectuals in the '40s and '50s. I'm trying to imagine a cocktail party
> on the upper west side where Jerry meets Susan Sontag, Robert Lowell and
> Diana Trilling.... Mary McCarthy and "Bunny" are smooching in the corner.
Yikes. Mary McCarthy savaged old Jerry at every opportunity. If you
look at the new book about her that is on the "new arrivals" shelves,
you'll see that every JDS entry in the index is either a bash or a
reference to something nasty she said.
> intellectuals) in English, today..... The Trillings are always
> thrilling--can anyone confirm or deny that Calvin is a relative?
I don't think there's a connection; his name is Trillin (no "g" at the
end there).
> One could do worse than spend an hour or two reliving the
> century with Edmund Wilson....
That would be intriguing. But at least we have his series of books, The
Forties, The Fifties, and, I think, The Sixties.
Happy drams!
--tim
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