Sublime

fucked-up rich kids. My son the doctor Mark Vonnegut, who wrote a swell book about his going crazy in the 1960s, and then graduated from Harvard Medical School, had an exhibition of his watercolors in Milton, Massachusetts, this summer.

deference

THE RETURN OF THE KING

expurgated

One of Laurel Manderley’s profs at Wellesley had once criticized her freshman essays for what he’d called their tin ear and cozening tone of unearned confidence, which had immediately become dark parts of her own self concept.

The great conversation has become a monologue.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

The well-off adored scrutinizing those in poverty.