Word: auchinclosses
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...Kenneth Auchincloss, now the managing editor of Newsweek, Harvard infused its students with "a fierce independence." Guido Goldman, the director of Harvard's Center for European Studies, recalls "the pluralism of the experience." Peter Brooks, a professor of French and comparative literature at Yale, remembers "that certain elegance." Robert Watkins III, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., recalls alliteratively, "the supreme sense of self-confidence." And Missouri-born Perry Smith, then the president of the Lampoon and now an Episcopal priest, sums up his college experiences as if they were part of a fable: "Little midwestern boy came and made good...
...says Auchincloss, "There weren't hell of a lot of women crawling through windows "Hawkins agrees. "It was much more special to call up a Radcliffe woman for a date then than it must...
...Louis Auchincloss, 63, author, on the merits of literary awards: "Prizes are for the birds. They fill the head of one author with vanity and 30 others with misery...
...late father Francis X. Shields, a remarkably handsome tennis star of the '30s, is the accepted source of Brooke's beauty). She often travels with her stepsister and childhood playmate Diana Auchincloss, 17. She moves easily among other teenagers, never seems to play the queen, and signs autographs with a shy smile while nibbling on a candy...
...bigot and a philistine" to various friends, but then seemed hurt when outsiders found him as obnoxious as he tried to be. He was also, as his letters reveal, generous in praising contemporaries like Graham Greene, George Orwell and Anthony Powell and encouraging to such newcomers as Louis Auchincloss and Thomas Merton. He was not entirely the Tory skinflint that his denunciations of the welfare state suggested; he assigned a number of foreign royalties to Catholic charities. His prejudices were surprisingly flexible. He enjoyed mocking the U.S. and calling its citizens "louts"; yet he told his agent to withhold publishing...