Word: auchincloss
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...Beeky Ehninger, a wealthy, well-connected robber baron descendant. Twenty-five years before, Beeky Ehninger had saved the firm by reorganizing it, and now it is facing a similar crisis. In the trauma of merging the law firm with an even bigger and more profitable factory. Auchincloss reveals the personalities of the various partners, associates, and wives. They come across as a pretty average group of people; people who may work a little harder, suffer from a few more neuroses and have a little more money than most people, but people who basically are not all that interesting. But each...
...AUCHINCLOSS APPEARS to harbor an ambition to be a modern-day Edith Wharton, chronicling the life of an East Coast Establishment. He fails on two accounts. He does not hate his culture enough. Perhaps he is passionately involved with his New York strata, but the passion (love/hate) does not come through in his writing in the same way that it does in Wharton's novels of that world. And the society itself has changed, disintegrated, lost its potency; it is no longer so hateable or lovable...
...although none of Auchincloss's partners is a Jew, New York has its share of them and they are fairly important. Meritocracy has, in a word, prevailed (and, most likely, was always, an element in the New York equation). And New York has, incidentally, become less important to the country than it once was. The world's work is no longer done in the city, and the work done in Auchincloss's fictional law firm involves mostly trusts, estates, and corporate clients. It is very profitable, and it permits a group of people to lead very comfortable lives, but ultimately...