Word: auchinclosses
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Gilded Gaggle. Auchincloss specializes in a man's estate rather than the estate of man, demonstrating that the three disgraces of Gotham are to be 1) dead broke, 2) alive and broke, and 3) a member of the undeserving rich...
...familiar Auchincloss lawyer and stockbroker characters are joined in this collection by two ancillary types: an auctioneer who casts a cold eye on objects left by the rich dead, and "the matrons," a gilded gaggle of rich old gorgons who hold the purse strings of family fortunes like bowstrings about the necks of their grandchildren. These characters are all united by money-not the new vulgar stuff that was extruded by the bull markets of the '50s and '60s, but the old stable commodity collected in the Civil War. It is the kind of money that nourished Manhattan...
...painter, John Howland, a "Bostonian and Mayflower descendant, educated at Dixwell Latin School and Harvard." He made his first mistake in becoming an artist; his second was to leave-together with his corny canvases-a portfolio of pornographic sketches. His daughter and heir destroy this Back Bay smut. The Auchincloss irony? That the smut just might have restored the reputation of Howland's square work in today's crooked intellectual auction room...
...Club Bedroom, Auchincloss illustrates the dreadful fate that awaits a poor working girl who marries into a top family, and who expects kith, kin or anyone else to respect her unspeakable class predicament. She loses her room at the woman's club. A Harvard-Yardley soap opera...
...collection of such stories, intricate in pattern, flat in surface, should be called Entails of Manhattan. Within his esthetic code, Auchincloss tells the truth and nothing but the truth. But he does not tell the whole truth, which can be dismissed as irrelevant, immaterial-and harder to write...