Under the Condor-Part Three
Stillman, Whit
"Under the Condor-Part Three" Whit Stillman was the image which kept recurring to Jane as she planned her descriptive essay on Manhattan. The car in which she rode, Ben Pasquali's Volvo,...
...To describe is to criticize"—for her this was the most disturbing thought of all...
...Before they left, their father had told them how the situation with Lisabetta stood...
...But Lisa said that she had especially wanted to talk to her...
...You're right that when it does appear it will probably, because of the delay, be a better magazine...
...impersonal...
...On each side separate traffic corridors extended to the north and south like twin asphalt-colored ribbons...
...It didn't answer any questions...
...has tendency towards jealousy...
...I wonder if those smug historians who find it so easy to write in a negative way will ever realize how destructive and hurtful their words have been...
...Reexamining the material in search of an explanation, I realized what should have been obvious to me all along—that these were not big-space ideas...
...All day long Lisabetta worked for the bird's recovery, with Jane at her side...
...1=1 The American Spectator March 1978 21...
...Otherwise I couldn't tell you...
...She approached the bird directly but carefully, imitating sandpiper mannerisms in an attempt to reassure it...
...second, "Junior...
...It concerns Lisabetta and, I'm afraid, is quite serious...
...The reaction of Mrs...
...The time Jane had for pondering these literary distinctions was running out...
...Traditionally this was "maid's room," but during the late 1960s there was a time when, in apartments all over the upper east side, the housekeepers had moved out of these rooms and the elder brothers had moved in...
...In Mobile my family occupied a similar position, except the term we used there was 'aristocracy.' By our standards, the Rockefellers are nouveaux riches...
...In addition, there is a resentment of the harsh business methods believed to have been used in the forming of some of the large American fortunes...
...Several of the Cousins already have...
...Furthermore, the unofficial deadline she had set herself for completing a major work in prose was then, too...
...but to Jane it was completely understandable, though her own grief was not as searing...
...The dinner plates Jane had finished rinsing and putting in the dishwasher now resembled a regiment of gilt-rimmed soldiers standing in close formation...
...She couldn't have believed that—her own childhood had been quite happy...
...By how much?' I asked...
...I finally realized that the whole notion of an entirely interesting magazine was from the beginning impossible...
...I'm sorry," he apologized to the assembled party upon his return...
...Whit Stillman Under the Condor Part Three anyons" was the image which kept recurring to Jane as she planned her descriptive essay on Manhattan...
...Maybe I was wrong...
...Historians have compounded this problem...
...But she dreaded that...
...There's a huge difference, though, in the amount of money doctors and architects make...
...That's no problem...
...Because to Jane now description was living, and the most devastating criticism of life she dared neither contemplate nor describe...
...In contrast to these reactions, Lisabetta's was one, not of pity, but, rather, of complete identification...
...Of course, Jane knew, she had no special "right" to describe things...
...With that Jane had no quarrel...
...On the menu were lima beans, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes ("yams" to Mrs...
...Jane blurted out angrily, and then instantly regretted having done so...
...A stream of interesting ideas and notions began to emerge, many of them quite subtle—for instance, a new way for handling second-class mailing information...
...H. Barton Repton and Mrs...
...This included Frey and Nini, her older brother and younger sister, and her parents, Mr...
...In October Jane had decided that the first principle of her life must be just that: to live...
...a senior at St...
...Ben slowed the car for another toll stop, silently paying and reaccelerating...
...Repton and her daughters looked at each other with concern, not so much in their eyes, Jane noticed, as in the features around them, such as the eyebrows...
...Whether or not 18 The American Spectator March 1978 this thought was kind, she decided for the moment not to consider...
...So, reluctantly, she would return to her beach towel, often looking up to see whether the bird was still there and to make sure that no dog approached it...
...Janie, if I didn't feel you could handle this maturely I never would have told you any of it...
...On their return she rushed upstairs to see how the sandpiper was...
...I'm no vet," her thought might go...
...The only alternative was to run the ads and the subscription blanks the same old way they have always been run, and that I couldn't do...
...The city, she thought, wore this color like a uniform...
...It hurts her that, simply because her last name is Rockefeller, people should hate and resent her...
...That Frey was now a graduate student in architecture at Princeton partly explained the imaginative arrangement of his room...
...Only four days were left until her deadlines...
...That's just the point...
...Altogether they became "the Family...
...There was no central thesis...
...H. Barton Repton, who was the former Miss Betty Rue...
...Partly she was concerned at the ease with which the images came —maybe it meant that they weren't really first-rate...
...She seemed to realize just how it would be to have a hurt wing and be left helpless on a beach crowded with large and not necessarily friendly human beings...
...For some time afterwards this person would probably feel sad about what she had seen...
...That's why you're not a writer...
...I've had an idea for a fictional short story, but I wouldn't know how to do it myself, so maybe you'd collaborate on it with me...
...Saying the Lord's Prayer she inter- rupted the usual language to give special thanks for the year, to mention Lisabetta, and to ask "please let things work out between Jim and me...
...On one level, her heart went out to him...
...During the summers of their childhood and early adolescence, Lisabetta had often come to visit the Reptons for a week in Edgar-town...
...Jane checked Frey's room that morning to see whether he was back yet from school, but immediately saw that he wasn't...
...But as Manhattan natives our perspective is different and quite a bit more sophisticated...
...To almost everyone her behavior seemed peculiar, crazy, different, unfamiliar...
...The surname she has chosen is unusual and, I feel, inappropriate...
...next, "the Cousins...
...To characterize her parents Jane did not think that one or even more simple descriptive sentences would be adequate...
...Some people affect not to care one way or another...
...feminine...
...At 2:30 Friday afternoon she went down town to buy a cocktail dress for that evening's party at the apartment of her roommate, Lisa Devigny...
...The first and most common reaction is one of great sympathy...
...I have often gotten the impression from all the historical accounts of the Rockefeller family that the authors are more interested in being critical than fair...
...This person would see the bird, approach it directly, pick it up, and, probably in the company of some friends, carry it home...
...For Jane one of the important attractions of return- ing home was the opportunity to see her family again...
...Northern...
...At the Devignys' party the guests all seemed extremely well dressed to Jane—many were friends of Lisa's elder brother and sisters, and there was a sprinkling of men in black or white tie and women in evening gowns—evidently they were going to other parties afterwards...
...The passage of time Jane found hard to characterize without falling back upon the old clock-bound way of reckoning it...
...For several moments Jane lingered upon two lines at the very bottom of the letter's page, and then she returned it to the enve- lope and flicked off the light...
...charming in front of company...
...The Repton house was turned into a hospital...
...on another she was concerned that a personal conversation should take up so much of the time she had left to plan her descriptive essay on Manhattan...
...But even her happy childhood had its unhappy moments and, she knew, it was from these that all her impulse to write, to describe things, drew...
...As you all know, the Rockefellers are a very wealthy family...
...what gives me the right to describe things...
...One morning in the July of their eleventh year Jane and Lisabetta had gone out to the eastern edge of South Beach to read, loaf, body surf, and lie in the sun, when they noticed a shorebird limping with its right wing outstretched, obviously hurt...
...Repton was called away from the table for a long-distance call...
...In her postcards home she had taken to using sandpiper scratch marks instead of her signature...
...For a moment I seriously considered what he was proposing, I was so anxious to bring the magazine out before Thanksgiving...
...In his actual handling of the car, as in his conversation, all Ben's awkwardness disappeared, which was a relief to Jane...
...If Jane were to characterize Nini—putting aside, for the moment, her present annoyance and traditional sentence structure —she would have used the following terms: young...attractive...
...It was a question she had difficulty answering...
...Jane felt as if she were seeing her roommate's true nature for the first time—the smug teenager inside the body of the twenty-year-old college student...
...He asked how Jim Van Blanck was...
...A wall calendar picturing architecturally notable buildings was the sole decoration —the whole effect one of spare modernity...
...The traditional descriptive sentence typically caught one trait or quality in isolation as a still camera would catch and freeze a single moment in time...
...Jane could sense his persisting depression...
...The rush of images pleased and calmed her, but something was still lacking...
...Repton represented the interests of Henry Rockefeller, one of the six Brothers...
...somewhat spoiled...
...I felt an overwhelming sense of uneasiness, the kind of acute emotional confusion which always seems to end in either an alcoholic binge or great creative productivity...
...But Lisabetta doesn't feel that way," Jane said...
...What embarrasses me most in retrospect is the tremendous egotism of my assumption that I could accomplish what the greatest magazine editors in history all failed to do—produce a magazine fascinating from start to finish...
...Out-of-towners, whether they come from London or Los Angeles, always go on about that ad nauseam...
...I'm afraid I've got to go out to Pocantico Hills right away...
...Repton was a partner in the prestigious New York law firm Solitary, Poor—but his principal work was as legal counsel, advisor, and friend to the Rockefeller family...
...The results so far," one part of the letter ran, "have been surprising and significant...
...For three hours that night her sobs pierced the stillness of the Edgartown street, and after the sobs stopped she plunged into a period of deep mourning, declining to go sunbathing for the rest of her Vineyard stay...
...This person would see the bird, and probably feel pity for it, but just walk on by anyway...
...Houghton must have seen how shaken I was because immediately he said, 'Don't worry, young fellow, this happens all the time.' In fact, he felt that I should go ahead with the first issue anyway and showed me how the full eight pages could be filled out by using public-service advertisements, large 'compliments-of-afriend' boxes, and subscription notices with especially big coupons...
...From the kitchen her sister Nini needlessly added, "Frey's not back yet...
...On Park Avenue all even-numbered buildings are on the western side of the street, giving them eastern exposures and so morning sun...
...If pressed, however, she would have admitted that it was to Frey that she felt closer...
...Traditionally in western culture great emphasis has been placed on thinking...
...his wife...
...Nini suggested that they all hold hands during grace, but Frey put his hands in his pockets, so the circle was left incomplete...
...Some of the ideas were so novel they frankly scared me...
...Neither she nor Lisabetta had minds which worked in the familiar ways...
...Rockefeller's daughter, and of all the Cousins, she was the one to whom Jane felt closest...
...In particular, Mr...
...To the offset firm's manager, Mr...
...When all the guests had left, Frey helped Jane clean up and gave her some advice for her essay...
...Houghton, and several of his Whit Stillman works on Park Avenue in New York, but does not live there...
...By 9 p.m., Frey, Nini, and Jane were all ready for the party...
...Or, in her father's case: hard - working...
...Mrs...
...Holding the bird gently, she carried it back to the Reptons' with Jane at her side...
...I haven't told you the whole story of the first issue's delay, and perhaps I'd better...
...Her mind simply wasn't oriented that way...
...Shortly the ribbon-like highway on which the Volvo rode extended into the opulent Christmas-wrapping of New York...
...dedicated...
...When I was in college," Frey said, "the career choice I faced was between architecture on one hand and medicine on the other...
...That was Mr...
...and, finally, "the Second Cousins...
...Don't," he said, "just talk about how tall the buildings are...
...Because the Rockefeller family is well known for being one of the richest, many people assume that their fortune was built up by sharp practices, too...
...That others should be fawning or deferential because of it is to her just as disturbing...
...Even if she could reach the bird safely, she might tell herself, there was 20 The American Spectator March 1978 little she could do for it...
...Probably not...
...The car in which she rode, Ben Pasquali's Volvo, was fifty miles northeast of New York, and before getting there Jane wanted to have some firm ideas for her essay...
...This person might afterwards feel regret at what happened, but without much compassion...
...In this country there is an attitude that rich people lead lives significantly different from other people...
...My Daddy wouldn't have wanted them in his home—he didn't approve of the sharp practices they used in their business affairs...
...My idea is that the teenage girl character would be happy and well-liked by her classmates—in fact, completely well-adjusted to her environment...I don't think a normal girl has ever been treated in fiction before...
...When she and Frey left the Devigny party shortly later, Jane could not bring herself to thank their hostess...
...Well,' he said, 'there are nearly seventy inches here.' "Seventy inches—that meant less than two pages of text...
...In the past people looked upon morning simply as the time when their conscious selves woke up...
...Her emotions a mixture of anxiety and nervousness, she slipped out of her bed and walked over to look out the window at the avenue below...
...With Frey behind her she walked into the living room and flung open one of its windows and looked down upon the canyon floor below...
...Jane said: "I think Mom and Dad tend to see economic con- siderations in different terms than we do because they're members of the generation born before 1925...
...As a lawyer, advisor, and friend, your father has been very valuable to the Rockefellers, Janie...
...Her official deadline for turning in the essay was—as set by the Harvard Advocate's prose board—the Monday morning following Thanksgiving, less than five days away...
...For a long while she had wanted to be on better terms with Nini, but her younger sister's resentment had remained a barrier...
...The story would focus on a main character—she'd be a girl in her early teens...
...With the expanse of urban landscape spreading before her, Jane searched for, and found, the phrase to characterize it: "a steely, bluish gray...
...Using this approach, she found that it was often enough to settle on a subject for the short, qualifying brushstrokes to be immediately suggested—for instance, her mother: warm ...Southern...
...And maybe there was something superficial about her whole descriptive approach...
...In "canyons," she knew she had found a particularly strong one, something good enough for the essay's title...
...The room illuminated was like a museum of a young woman's youth and childhood...
...A kind of creative frenzy seized her...
...Under this pressure her sense of perception had been heightened to an almost dangerous extent...
...Jane did not actually believe the myth that all writers had unhappy childhoods...
...If she did feel better than other people, she wouldn't mind them thinking so—their supposition would be accurate...
...Covering the walls and bureaus were mementos of American life in the early and middle 1970s, and on an upholstered armchair was a pile of old Steiff stuffed animals, staring dazed and glassy-eyed in every direction...
...but now we are beginning to see it also as the time when one's dreaming self goes to sleep...
...Apparently I had made a serious miscalculation...
...For people whose minds work in the normal way—which is most people—there are three standard reactions to the sight of a bird struggling on the beach...
...But this very inability, she believed, opened to her ways of thought which went deeper than the usual logic-bound-ones, or at least to new places...
...Just plain 'Piper' would be perfect...
...a world full of smug historians, sharp business practices, boys with cherry bombs, cruel teenagers, and a dead bird lying at the bottom of a pen with its neck turned at a 180-degree angle...
...For Lisabetta the load has apparently been too great to bear...
...and their children who, in Family terms, were part of the Cousins...
...In the Repton apartment all the bedrooms were on the second floor except for her brother Frey's tiny suite—bedroom and bath—sandwiched between the kitchen and the back door...
...Repton not yet back from Pocantico Hills, they got onto the subject of the Rockefellers...
...Jane turned away from the window...
...Now she joined her sister in the kitchen and together they prepared a lavish Thanksgiving breakfast for the senior Reptons...
...To some people her efforts began to seem almost obsessive...
...But she seems to have set herself upon being 'Sandpiper.' It seems eccentric to me...
...My feeling was that bringing out a first issue was crucial for the magazine, but that it seemed doubtful whether it could ever come out...
...Lisabetta was Mr...
...Repton put aside his newspaper—the New York Times—and said, "What I am going to say I expect each of you to keep in confidence...
...On the Connecticut Turnpike their speed seemed to slow as Ben pulled into a series of toll stations where various amounts of change had to be paid over...
...The images just came to her, filling up page after page in her notebook...
...Mr...
...She thought of the descriptive essay lying unfinished in her room upstairs, of the snobbish thoughts she had once had about pedestrians in Cambridge, of discarded stuffed animals with no one to love them, and of the burden of carrying a distinguished Old Service Family name...
...has high standards ...brilliant...
...Back in her own room, under the bedcovers before putting out the light, Jane slipped a folded piece of brown paper out of a Corn Union hospital envelope...
...The Rocket fellers are in some ways almost a dynasty as well as a family, and in their private lexicon each generation carries its own esoteric name: First was the founder, "John D...
...At the bottom of its pen the bird's lifeless form lay, its neck twisted back nearly 180 degrees...
...What's happened to Lisabetta...
...To the average American there is nothing more detestable than a person who both nas a lot of money and considers himself better than other people...
...Like a kind of tribute," Jane thought...
...successful at law . . . masculine...
...employees nearby, it was tremendously humiliating, not so much for me as for the magazine...
...But it won't be appearing...
...Much later that evening, Jane stopped by her parents' room to say goodnight to her mother and, with Mr...
...Jane's feelings went deeper than that, but her kitchen duties prevented her from following them...
...able to think visually...masculine...not willing to suffer fools gladly., With both her brother and sister Jane shared a common background, and their early years they had all spent together...
...not efficient...
...At 9 o'clock on Thanksgiving morning Jane was awakened by the sunlight which flooded her room for fifteen minutes...
...The second typical response is less sensitive...
...What I proposed was a magazine of eight large-format pages—forty column inches to each page...
...But Lisabetta is a kind and sensitive person...
...We've grown up in the tall buildings, looking down...
...Finally, on Saturday evening, Jane's parents had insisted that Lisabetta join the rest of the family for dinner at the Harborside Inn...
...attractive...
...The motive of a Rockefeller wanting to change his name should not be hard to understand...
...Right now Lisabetta is quite a troubled girl...
...Those kinds of things did not come easily for her...
...Between them was a raised, enclosed garden area—like an island amidst the traffic lanes...
...Fifth Avenue, her first destination, sat like an expensive shopping corridor under the unseasonable November sun...
...Fortunately for me, it turned out to be the latter...
...But the Rockefellers are great friends of your father, and I have found them all gracious and without a trace of sharpness...
...And he's given them some- thing else that's especially important—social entrée...
...The first was more imaginative, but the second, she felt, probably better as a title—less subtle and so more accessible to readers...
...has no accent...
...The past week had been one of shattering disappointment for him, and the Connecticut radio station they had tuned in was playing an uninterrupted ten minutes of old songs...
...Anyway, this is the situation: Lisabetta has decided to drop her family name and take in its place the surname "Sandpiper"—her full name would be "Lisabetta Sandpiper...
...Shortly afterwards her dreaming self woke up...
...When everyone was seated at the dining-room table for breakfast, Mr...
...Before I made my decision Dad mentioned this to me...
...Towards the end of the meal Mr...
...Her brother Frey she would have described in somewhat different terms: handsome...
...So I decided to calculate exactly how much new material was on hand, in terms of space...
...Jane sometimes had a difficult time at parties because she was not very good at small talk...
...gracious ...feminine...
...Repton said was, first, one of worry and sympathy for Lisabetta in her troubles and, second—though this might seem callous—an appreciation of the story simply as an interesting piece of information...
...Jane asked with a nearly hysterical tone in her voice...
...A person responding in this way would feel a wave of pity for the bird and want to help it...
...Very well," Jane said, and explained about the hospital research project Jim had been con- ducting on the psychology of sleep and wakefulness...
...To all Ben said Jane listened closely, watching for any indication by which to guage the depth of his disappointment...
...Each morning and afternoon Lisabetta and Jane scoured South Beach for sandbugs with which to satisfy the bird's enormous appetite...
...Stopping to think, she would decide that in causing the bird to flee she was adding to its pain...
...If she failed she had decided to transfer out of English and follow whatever lead the university's aptitude testing service could give her...
...Jane asked herself on Friday...
...The weather was seasonal...
...For us worries come more from the inside...
...While Frey worked on getting the grease out of the roasting pan, he added another thought on architecture: "To be successful as an architect you have to believe that what you are doing is right and that what everyone else is doing is wrong...
...Work on her essay had been going well all morning, so well that it almost made her feel nervous...
...After the toll Ben quickly rolled up his window and wordlessly accelerated...
...Tim's...
...They walked back along the avenue toward 832, and it was then that the realization that her old friend Lisabetta was in grave trouble first really struck Jane...
...Last Wednesday, exactly a week ago, I drove out to Haverill to the offset firm I had engaged to print the first issue of COTTON MATHER'S...
...From the living-room window she was looking down at the twin asphalt ribbons below: They seemed bigger than they had from her room upstairs...
...If the filler material Mr...
...Now she added to it a second one: to care...
...No cook, domestic, housekeeper, or servant assisted them...
...From the way things were going it began to seem possible that a first issue might be brought out, not before the holiday, but at least soon afterwards...
...Driving back to Cambridge," Ben said, "I was in a state of complete depression...
...The highway before her seemed to extend like a ribbon into the distance, occasionally forming into bows...
...There just aren't three-hundred and twenty interesting column inches out there...
...But then in trying to push a cherry bomb down the bird's narrow throat he would cause its neck to snap, inadvertently killing it...
...Since her decision the previous month to concentrate her writing in prose, the continued importance of metaphor had surprised her...
...They were raised in the worldof scarcity before the affluent society began around 1950, so for them external concerns--money, high salaries, a large income— are of disproportionate importance...
...The most effective method of representation, Jane felt, was analogous to the fast-cutting technique of advanced filmmakers—the placing of a series of striking images together in rapid succession...
...What I can't understand," Lisa was saying, "is why this idea never occurred to anyone else previously...
...Houghton had suggested could have been done in an interesting way, everything would have been fine, but to come up with a novel way to handle each bit of padding could have taken months...
...has accent...
...Standing in the middle of the shop with Mr...
...intelligent...
...This descriptive technique was far more allusive than the old sentence-bound one, but it still did not convey exactly what her parents were like, at least not to her own satisfaction...
...The result seemed incredible: All it amounted to was twenty-five column inches, another half page or so...
...In fact, for security reasons we consider it almost desirable...
...There are any number of respectable family names that she might consider as an alternative—Plover, Tern, Seagull...
...He said that the economic factor was some- thing I should be aware of...
...But I was always much more interested in architecture so I decided to go with that...
...America has no hereditary royal family or nobility...
...Thanksgiving Dinner was prepared solely by the Reptons...
...There were others, too...
...The weather was seasonal...
...maternal...
...You know," Jane said, "from one perspective it is disappointing that the first issue of COTTON MATHER'S could not come out in time for Thanksgiving, but looking at it another way, it's possible that the delay will one way or another make it a better magazine when it does appear...
...In past summers Lisabetta had often visited the Reptons in Edgartown...
...The Reptons are one of this country's old service families...
...Houghton, I handed over all the material for the issue, but in a few minutes he came back, saying: 'I'm afraid we're a little short on copy...
...I only feel the last part...
...But it was a personal deficiency she did not mind so much because, to her, small talk did not seem very important...
...Typically she might approach the bird but then hesitate when, out of fear, it would frantically try to move away...
...A moment later he added: "Great wealth can be both a burden and an obligation...
...By the time Lisa Devigny came up to greet her, Jane had already finished her fourth rum coke...
...charming...
...Ben reached out somewhat clumsily with his right hand and flicked off the radio...
...instead, there is a widespread belief in egalitarianism...
...then his sons, "the Brothers...
...and already two possible ones had occurred to her: alternately "Gotham: City of Canyons" and "New York: City of Canyons...
...What her essay cried out for was a central theme or metaphor, but that might jeopardize its spontaneity...
...From our vantage point what's noticeable is not the tallness but the canyon effect...
...The result is that the Rockefellers have become known not for all they've done for others, but simply for being very rich people, The American Spectator March 1978 19 with the implication that they think they are better than other people...
...The third kind of response, less common than the others, is in some ways quite a dark one...
...The bed was raised five feet from the floor, with space underneath forhis bureau, chair, and sloping designer's desk...
...The wealthy, in their freedom from money worries, seem to contradict this, and as a result are bitterly resented by many people and held in excessive awe by others...
...Lisa continued talking excitedly about her idea, heedless to the insensitivity and even cruelty of her tone: her thoughtless mocking of the fact that many people—the case of Carson McCullers immediately came to Jane's mind—had childhoods less happy than her own...
...Rockefeller...
...The smugness of what Nini said—the implication that she knew more than her sister—grated on Jane...
...The first thing which occurred to Jane that morning was that since Ben had dropped her off the previous afternoon she had not come up with a single thought, image, or idea for her descriptive essay on Manhattan...
...And this explained why she and Lisabetta had become friends...
...It can also be a responsibility and an opportunity...
...But that would have meant going against its whole purpose: to demonstrate that a publication could be put out interesting in each of its parts, no matter how small or seemingly routine—masthead, pagination, article titles, everything...
...In Cambridge the pedestrians had depressed her, but here they seemed well dressed and reasonably happy...
...Repton), cranberry sauce and jelly, two gravies (with and without giblets), turkey with oyster dressing in the crop and celery in the cavity, salad, pumpkin and mince pies, fruits and nuts with their coverings still on, and the various courses all capped off by a choice of coffee with or without caffeine...
...However, the negative thought patterns she often had while walking still plagued her on Lexington Avenue...
...The lights of the lobby of 832 Park Avenue illuminated the tears rolling like droplets of water down Jane's cheeks...
...A Vineyard Haven vet was consulted to prescribe proper treatment for the bird...
...dedicated...
...Their feeling was that for twenty years their parents had done a tremendous amount for them, so that any gesture of gratitude was entirely appropriate...
...The Reptons had not been immune to this epochal shift...
...And she thought of a world full of people who hate other people because of their last name, and people who look down on other people, or don't want to get involved...
...The Repton house was actually a nine-room duplex apartment spanning the fifth and sixth floors of 832 Park Avenue, near 77th Street...
...Repton and Nini to what Mr...
...To this meal thirteen diners sat—five Reptons, five relatives from Jane's father's side of the family, and three unrelated guests...
...In fact, some of the design innovations—such as my proposed margin treatment: not having any—just opened up more space to be filled...
...But her essay still lacked premises...
Vol. 11 • March 1978 • No. 5
