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PIERRE ("PETE") DU PONT IV, 36, Republican, Del., looks the industrial scion he is: slender, aristocratic, out of Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School. He is most concerned about the U.S. drug problem, and is seeking a seat on the Commerce Committee, which has a subcommittee on drugs. He calls his bargaining as freshman "playing poker with no cards...
Despite such knee-pants resentment of authority, the two elected the priesthood for a career. Daniel went in young, joining the Jesuits at 18 in 1939; he did not visit home again until 1946. Philip enlisted and went to war; in Divine Disobedience, Francine du Plessix Gray's admirable portrait of the Berrigans and other Catholic radicals, a friend characterizes Philip as "an 'exceptionally gifted warrior" who fought in France and Germany and won a second lieutenant's commission. After the war, he finished college at Holy Cross, not far from Daniel, who was at Weston seminary near Boston...
...note of dissent was heard from at least one student. Claire Du Charme '73 said: "I don't like it. I don't think it's right to take a human life." She said she felt that a loan program would lead to a careless attitude toward abortion...
After 1815, when the Memoirs end, Madame de La Tour du Pin trailed her diplomat-husband from The Hague to Turin. Even in old age, revolutionary ups and downs were the norms of their lives. When Aymar became involved in a plot to place the Due de Bordeaux on the throne in 1831, both parents spent time in prison out of sympathy, then joined him in exile...
Madame de La Tour du Pin died at 83 in Pisa with her autobiography almost 40 years in arrears. Still, the self-portrait is complete. It reveals a woman who took the worst blows a disorienting world had to offer (even by today's high standards of disorder) and remained amused, serene and whole...