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[jackthebear]

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@Oznell wrote:

His ability to skewer pretension was acute.  I remember reading an excerpt from a piece I think he wrote in the Sixties.  It might have been "Mau-mau-ing the Flak Catchers",  or something like that?

Now I get a kick out of Leonard Bernstein--  his showmanship and great talent, etc.  But Wolfe wrote about "Lenny" and his wife having a bunch of Sixties' type activists to one of their exclusive little parties.  It might even have been in the Dakota?-- some swank domicile of theirs.  And he just satirized them unmercifully.

I vaguely remember some passage where he portrays Lenny in earnest conversation with some "radical du jour",  and murmuring his affirmation in his rarefied accent,  "Oh, I dig, I absolutely dig".....      I'm paraphrasing, but it was close...

Very funny stuff!

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Radical chic .essay/book well worth the read as is the modern art book 

[Oznell]

Oh, thanks for supplying that source, @jackthebear.

[CHIP62]

@Oznell,

One of my favorite writers as well🌻RIP