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Dershowitz has been contentious since his boyhood in Brooklyn's Boro Park section, but his intellectual powers were rarely applied to schoolwork. "You know, Alan," said his high school principal once, "you're very dumb, but you're very verbal. The only thing you can be is a lawyer." At Brooklyn College, Dershowitz suddenly became a serious student. He went on to Yale Law School, where he had what he calls "my first experience with anti-Semitism." The top student in his class, he applied to 32 Wall Street firms for a summer...
From the first scene the split between the two is clear. Defending his childhood predilection for make-believe, good-boy Austin (Francois de la Giroday) claims. "I enjoy my imagination "Lee (John Bottoms), recalling his own boyhood love of squashing desert snakes and disgusted by his brother's lack of macho, snorts. "Looks like you're still enjoying...
Self-consciousness and willful deception emerge as long-standing Steinbrenner traits dating back to his comfortable suburban boyhood in Ohio. Steinbrenner's austere German father--whom he credits with instilling toughness in him--placed heavy demands on his only son. For one thing, he forced young George to wear a tie and jacket to grade school, losing him any friends he might have had; for another, he shipped the boy off to a military academy at age 14 where. Schaap observes, Steinbrenner's one good mark was an A-plus in military science...
...Dewey Spangler, a top-flight newspaper columnist a la Alsop who wields more power than any single senator, a boyhood chum of Corde's who turns up on swing through Eastern Europe. As a kid, Spangler was inebriated with Swinburne, Wilde, Nietzsche. Now he is slick, in analysis, still a bit cowed by Corde, and at the same time vindictive...
...flap. The dean has also been criticized for his role in the arrest of two blacks accused of murder. Corde has been called a racist, a traitor to his home town and a fool. His boss is miffed at the publicity caused by his magazine piece, and his boyhood friend Dewey Spangler, now a famous columnist and "princely communicator," complains that Corde put too much poetry into Chicago...