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...invited that is most impressive. The writers and literary experts recruited for these events were not the party faithful. Some of the guests have been very critical of President Bush and his policies. As the New York Times pointed out, one visitor to the literary symposium in September, Justin Kaplan, received his invitation even though he had publicly condemned the President’s “troglodytic” approach to policy issues. That Kaplan and other critics of Bush are still invited to these festivals shows the White House’s commitment to culture. But more importantly...
...about condoms is using a scare tactic to try and get kids not to be sexually active," says Tamara Kreinin, president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. "And the fact that physicians are now doing this gives it an added level of credibility." Dr. David Kaplan, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, shares her concern: "It's infuriating not to give kids information so that they can protect themselves...
After finishing college (Bernays at Barnard, Kaplan at Harvard), each settled in Manhattan seeking a job in publishing. She landed at Town & Country, where she accidentally set a fire in a pail. She moved on to the literary journal discovery. He found a job at Simon & Schuster. Through work, the two met, and sparks flew. "Annie had a core of sweetness, shrewdness and merriment," writes Kaplan. She was "immensely attractive, a proto-feminist, self-assured, easily amused, wary of anything pretentious, street-smart, privileged without ostentation or snobbery, comfortable with luxury but unspoiled by it, and professional minded." Bernays...
...restrictive era for Jews. Certain jobs, housing and social milieus were off limits to them. "They were discouraged from entering professions like architecture, banking, and through restrictive quotas, even medicine," writes Kaplan. For Bernays, anti-Semitism began at home; her father tried to deny his Jewishness altogether. "My father would have rather lived on the Bowery alongside the bums than among Jews and assorted Old Worlders on the Upper West Side," she writes. "I knew nothing about Jewish holidays; they were as invisible as our many cousins in Austria and Germany who did not survive...
Therapy even intruded on their courtship. "Soon after Annie and I became engaged, a psychologist we met at a party told us we were the worst imaginable marital risk," Kaplan recalls. The therapeutic view proved wrong again: Bernays and Kaplan have been married 47 years, and they have three children and six grandchildren. Every day the two go off to their individual offices in their Dutch colonial home to work on their next books. It's just life on Professors...