Its a joke to say 500 of my closest friends, but that would have been true with George1,000 of his closest friends, actually. They all gathered there. In finally hearing the great storyteller tell the one story he would not tell, I could hear, too, his long, reverent silence on the subjectand it reveals his integrity as a journalist, and as a man. Researcher and writer Samuel Arbesman filed with NASA to name an asteroid after Plimpton; NASA issued the certificate 7932 Plimpton in 2009. Why couldnt we have a good time, too? Back to Plimpton I dont remember the LL affect at all. He would have a beer with you. She was having lunch at P. J. Clarkes with the publisher Bennet Cerf and his son Chris, and my dad swooped over to the table (he was wearing a cape) and introduced himself in that ridiculously gallant voice: Bennet, Chris, what a pleasant surprise! I live in Connecticut which is both the richest and poorest state in the union - I think we still are - and we have our fair share of extremely rich folk who sit around all day in their large victorians wearing rockport loafers, no sox, khaki pants and a polo-shirt with the collar up. Did he have the celebrated "Boston Brahmin" accent, or was it a psuedo-Brit affectation? [29], His enthusiasm for fireworks grew, and he was appointed Fireworks Commissioner of New York by Mayor John Lindsay,[29][30] an unofficial post he held until his death. I had George tell him the story of Sidd Finch. Queen Elizabeth doesnt say car, and neither did Franklin D. Roosevelt, nor did the newsreel announcers or movie actors of his day. He is connected by blood to Benjamin "Beast" Butler, a rakish pol who told Abraham Lincoln he would be his running mate "only if you die within three. The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch. Starring George Plimpton as Himself, which documents his life, adventures, and work as participatory journalist and editor of the Paris Review, my dad will be playing himself one more time. By strange coincidence, I actually became quite good friends with his (ex-)in-laws here in Manhattan. In 2013, the documentary Plimpton! **. I havent heard that he is dead, but if so RIP George. We worked at the Paris Review on the Rue Garanere for several years together. Besides, third is a very respectable showing! George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. If you are in the big league, God help us all. It evoked a sense of Paris from a time when Paris was still the literary capital of the world, publishing literary giants who were considered obsceneHenry Miller, D.H. Lawrence. If he couldnt be taken quite seriously, that was fine with him (he took himself lightly, and relished being in on the joke). Losing, he knew, always makes a better story than winning. George Plimpton (1927-2003) George Plimpton was the editor of The Paris Review from its founding in 1953 until his death in 2003. After running the pilot, Rod Serling realized the narration needed a less pompous sounding and more natural voice himself. But he would do this in the most charming and agreeable way. The Writers won the game with a home run in extra innings, but the highlight was Plimptons hit. He just did it because Columbia was another literary magazine. By George Plimpton. Vault. My fathers voice was like one of those supposedly extinct deep-sea creatures that wash up on the shores of Argentina every now and then. Orson Welles notably spoke in a mid-Atlantic accent in the 1941 film Citizen Kane, as did many of his co-stars, such as Joseph Cotten. *Originally posted by cuauhtemoc * **Oh, I suppose we should all just lavish praise upon Carnac the Magnificent now for bringing this to your attention, is that it? But he came right down to our level. "He speaks with an oddly mannered accent, sounding as though on the verge of a stammer, polite, genteel, perhaps just a little Woosterish. Hearing the words Dammit, Im mad as a hornet! uttered in George Plimptons voice made anger sound totally ridiculous, which is exactly what it most often is. Plimpton played quarterback for the Detroit Lions and triangle for the New York Philharmonic, an. Congratulations Carnac, for posting about George Plimptons death at 3:44 PM. BTW, I cant imagine a presidential candidate today getting anywhere close to a nomination with FDRs accent, cigarette holder, and aristocratic bearing. Orson Welles also comes to mind, though I noticed he spoke in this mode more often during his early days, on and off screen. George Plimpton. (Why do I even bother?) But for now, just one more category: 3) Changing technology, changing voices. [2] His first wife, whom he married in 1968[38] and divorced in 1988, was Freddy Medora Espy, a photographer's assistant. **Thats a common name for such an accent. He was so open to life and all its new and unexpected situations. [citation needed], In the movie Plimpton! [37] His son, Taylor, described it as a mixture of "old New England, old New York, tinged with a hint of King's College King's English."[14]. With such a useful explanation, why do I gripe about the name? Was this sheer affectation? Famed participatory journalist George Plimpton (1927-2003) was a writer, editor, amateur sportsman, actor, and friend to many. They spoke in this manner, and it seemed perfectly natural, evocative of a background spent among the gentry of the northeast.. Suddenly, a New York cop remembered a long-ago murder. Share; Copied! Shadow Box. [45], Plimpton is the protagonist of the semi-fictional George Plimpton's Video Falconry, a 1983 ColecoVision game postulated by humorist John Hodgman and recreated by video game auteur Tom Fulp.[46]. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. When I spoke to him my voice went up an octave and took on his formal tone and became careful and unnatural; his voice became like his fathersstern, authoritative, disciplinarianwhen his father was the last person in the universe he wanted to be. 08:37 Dinner at Elaine's. by George Plimpton. Both of Plimpton's maternal grandparents were born with the surname Ames; his mother was the granddaughter of Medal of Honor recipient Adelbert Ames (1835-1933), an American sailor, soldier, and politician, and Oliver Ames, a US political figure and the 35th Governor of Massachusetts (18871890). I havent heard that he is dead, but if so RIP George. The clenched jaw tight-bite bit: the lockjaw dentiloquist. While I don't normally think of Lithgow as speaking with a Mid-Atlantic accent, he does a great job affecting one for the role. As Poling puts it, George was known as an unrivaled raconteur and, in making a film of his life story, it only seemed natural to allow him to tell it.. The list of authors interviewed is extraordinary, and stretches from Hemingway years ago to Amy Hempel (in the 50th anniversary issue that has just been published). [11], His mother was Pauline Ames,[12] the daughter of botanist Oakes Ames (1874-1950) and artist Blanche Ames. **. Hemingway on Fiction, Part Two. And bolstering this last point, a reader who grew up in Depression-era Chicago writes: All I can think of is that people were imitating FDR. George Plimpton's duplex apartment on the Upper East Side hit the market for $5.495 million on April 18. George . And George had written it straight. All rights reserved. Butch, he says, because he always called me Butch. Bill, who was from the South, kept saying to me, Can you believe Georges not English? You should be very grateful. $ 4.19 - $ 17.92. Youll get another shot at the big time, trust me. Oh, I suppose we should all just lavish praise upon Carnac the Magnificent now for bringing this to your attention, is that it? My dad and I could not lose each other, but we could never quite find each other, either. I dont give a rats ass about informing anyone about the death of Plimpton. With the evolution of talkies in the late 1920s, voice was first heard in motion pictures. [31][32][33] His firework, a Roman candle named "Fat Man",[31][32][33] weighed 720 pounds (330kg)[31] and was expected to rise to 1,000 feet (300m)[33] or more[31] and deliver a wide starburst. Prestigious prep schools and ivy league institutions (though Gore Vidal never went to college). I remember getting the news: It was my wife Madeleines birthday, Aug. 7. George Plimpton (1927-2003) was a journalist and the first editor-in-chief of The Paris Review. Well, perhaps it's more accurate to say that the book provided entertaining confirmation to millions of people that they -- like the author . I have worked as poetry editor with editors on other magazines; only with George has the experience been entirely agreeable. Now you know! Isnt that what they call it. Shoot! hed hiss, when he was mad. How to find out, and whether you should care. For instance: The American-British television presenter Loyd Grossman, who has described his accent as Mid-Atlantic. As a result, this American version of a posh accent has all but disappeared even among the American upper classes. "[34] A feature in Mad titled "Some Really Dangerous Jobs for George Plimpton" spotlighted him trying to swim across Lake Erie, strolling through New York's Times Square in the middle of the night, and spending a week with Jerry Lewis. [33] A later attempt, fired at Cape Canaveral, rose approximately 50 feet (15m) into the air and broke 700 windows in Titusville, Florida. I just knew it was going to be something terrible. It was scary, because he was never mad, and to see this normally benevolent, white-haired figure of civility fill with pink steam, to hear this gentle man, who loved nothing more than to tell lighthearted stories and laugh, suddenly shout-whisper Dammit at some injustice on the other end of the telephone was unsettling. Was it me? George Plimpton Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family . I have a memory of George emerging out of the bush, with a terrible sunburn on his nose and face and legs; he was in safari gear, none of it hanging together very well, and over it all he was wearing a nice blue blazer. She would not even say goodbye. In the 50s Plimpton and staff came to New York, where they kept the Review going for half a century. Several weeks later at a book party, he spotted two writers who had played in that game. [citation needed], Plimpton's studies at Harvard were interrupted by military service from 1945 to 1948, during which time he served in Italy as an Army tank driver. Consider his duties as host of Mousterpiece Theatre (my first intro to my father as celebrity), a childrens TV show in which he debated the adventures and psyches of Donald Duck and Goofy in that marvelously serious voice: Is Donald Duck really a strident existentialist and a hero? How wonderfulwhat fun!to have a constant reminder emerging from your lips that life was absurd, and identity, too; all of it a great game to be played at, enjoyed. One night Joe DiMaggio was here, and they had never met, so I introduced them. Isnt that what they call it. His response was "no, just affected.". rejoiced in the name of Euphemia van Renssalaer Wyatt. Plimpton was a writer-raconteur and dilettante in the best sense of the word: He co-founded an important literary magazine, the Paris Review, and tried his hand at everything from quarterbacking for the Detroit Lions (which he wrote about in Paper Lion), boxing with light-heavyweight champ Archie Moore (which became Shadow Box), and becoming New Yorks unofficial official fireworks commissioner. His exploits were such that at one point, The New Yorker ran a cartoon in which a patient eyed a surgeon with misgiving and said, But how do I know youre not George Plimpton?, But perhaps foremost among his accomplishments was his elevation of the interview to a literary form, both in the Paris Review and in his two superb works of oral history, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career, and Edie, a biography of Edie Sedgwick, which he and Jean Stein compiled. A heuristic approximation! Its our anniversary. He was also known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra[1] and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Peter Matthiessen took the magazine over from Humes and ousted him as editor, replacing him with Plimpton, using it as his cover for Matthiessen's CIA activities. I enjoy doing it. Thats it, George cried out. In it Van Voorhis has the formal delivery that would have seemed familiar to many mid-century listeners but which in retrospect we know was on the way out. George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. He could have done whatever he wanted. A similar phenomenon can be noted in the use, well into the 1980s, of the recorded sound of teletype machines in the background of newscasts, a sound still faintly evoked by the bip-bip-bip patterns of music that often introduces news broadcasts, even though teletype machines are long gone The subconscious association of this pattern of sound with news is fading fast with the passing of the years and will undoubtedly disappear entirely in the coming decade as surely as the over-enunciated style of radio speech of the 30s disappeared within a generation of its no longer being needed. It was a hot, sweltering day. George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. Robert Silvers, editor, the New York Review of Books:I met George on the Ile Saint-Louis in 1953 as I was leaving NATO headquarters. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. [35], Plimpton was known for his distinctive accent which, by Plimpton's own admission, was often mistaken for an English accent. We all just had our own regional accentor non accent, like the flat midwest speak. Felix Grucci Jr., of Fireworks by Grucci (Plimpton wrote about the Grucci family, widely held to be the first family of fireworks, in Fireworks: A History and Celebration):George had a very big passion for fireworks. Plimpton sparred for three rounds with boxing greats Archie Moore and Sugar Ray Robinson while on assignment for Sports Illustrated. Spoke in a mid-Atlantic accent, reflecting a privileged Upper East Side (in New York City) upbringing. YESTERDAY IS NOT FAR AWAY. In no way do I recall Plimpton talking in a way that is typically associated with LLa style which, as I understand it, is associated with unclear pronunciation of most consonant cluster. Plimpton had a quasi-Brit patrician accent, which in no way corresponds with the official descriptions of LL that Ive read on the Net. He was not himself interested in poetry, but he read all of the poems every quarter, and he would tell me what he thought of them. Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 429-432. For it was George Plimpton the writer, not the editor nor the celebrity, who was honored here . The Scout Is a Lonely Hunter. You heard it and it could only be him. I want you to go [to the shop] pull out the biggest firework you have and go out and light it up, because you just won the firework contest in Monaco!, I was so stunned, all I could think to say was, I dont think I can get a permit that fast!, Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America, poetry editor, The New Yorker:When I was an adviser at Columbia Magazine [a journal run out of Columbia University], we were scraping barrel, with no money in the bank, and I said to the students we should have a benefit auction. Call me back.. After returning to New York from Paris, he routinely launched fireworks at his evening parties. Actually, thats not far off from how my mom felt when she first met him. The Dudleys established the 36-acre (15ha) Highstead Arboretum in Redding, Connecticut. He called his computer the machine. At dinner, when offered seconds, he would often decline by saying, Thank you, no, Ive had a gracious plenty. He called my mom Puss (this was also the name of our fat, raccoon-striped cat, though he was Mr. But Labov said that in post-World War II New York, fancier people started becoming rhotic, and recovering their Rs. Even the most basic conversation was often a struggle. He had a way of putting it all together, of understanding fighters in the ring; he was a good analyst of boxing. And similarly on the role of ridicule in speeding the move away from this accent: This is only partly facetious, but I think I know who was the American to speak "Announcer." With a little more practice, you could give us boys in the big leagues a run for our money. He hosted Disney Channel's Mouseterpiece Theater (a Masterpiece Theatre spoof which featured Disney cartoon shorts). They spoke in this manner, and it seemed perfectly natural, evocative of a background spent among the gentry of the northeast. Plimpton was .the public face of the New York intellectual: tweedy, eclectic and with a plummy accent he himself described as "Eastern seaboard cosmopolitan." . I thought they were terrific. Bill and I met in Rome, several months after the Paris Review was startedwe were, as they say, courtingand he drove me to Paris so George and Peter [Mathiessen] could look me over. George Plimpton. Mr . It includes clear pronunciation of each and every consonant cluster. But looking back on it, its funny, too. By George Plimpton. In that vein, here is an oral biography of George Plimpton. Starring George Plimpton as Himself, the writer James Salter said of Plimpton that "he was writing in a genre that really doesn't permit greatness. Are you saying that the denizens of Larchmont sound like Plimpton did? The fake English announcer voice lingered on sporadically until the end of the Johnson administration in newsreels, which themselves ceased production around the same time, but Rod Serlings decision sounded the death knell for that accent. Listen to Caruso singing or Bix Beiderbecke playing his cornet to hear how muffled was the recording of those sounds. This kept his magazine fresh for 50 years. I can understand your frustration, but celebrities die every day. Premiring on June 21st at the SilverDocs festival, in Washington, D.C., and directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling, the film contains interviews with notable friends and peers like Hugh Hefner, Peter Matthiessen, and James Lipton, though the majority of this remarkable account is narrated by none other than George Plimpton. It sounds like Somerset Maugham, was a favorite putdown. Never heard of this decidedly imprecise term. Few could give a toast or tell a story with equal humor. [32] When lit, the firework remained on the ground and exploded, blasting a crater 35 feet (11m) wide and 10 feet (3.0m) deep. Okay, then, are you saying that Plimpton has such as accent? [26] He also appeared in an episode of the NBC sitcom Wings. December 17, 2022 Rafael Garca. Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. Firstly, then-managing director of SI, Mark Mulvoy, gave Plimpton the liberty to create a hoax.Secondly, SI photographer Lane Stewart recruited his friend, Joe Berton to play the part of Sidd Finch. So it went in late 1960 at one of George Plimpton's legendary soirees at 541 E. 72nd St., New York. That was when Westbrook van Voorhis, the famous March of Time voice, did the intro narration of the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone. She is the product of a line of the original Dutch settlers of New York and grew up in Tuxedo Park and the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan, very exclusive. NEW YORK -- George Plimpton, the self-deprecating author of "Paper Lion" and other sporting adventures and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died. $ 9.19 - $ 32.19. . He wrote, "I suppose in a mild way there is a lesson to be learned for the young, or the young at heart the gumption to get out and try one's wings". [17], In 1953, Plimpton joined the influential literary journal The Paris Review, founded by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. "Doc" Humes, becoming its first editor in chief. He was an actor and writer, known for Good Will Hunting (1997), Nixon (1995) and Just Cause (1995). Again with thanks to Jonathan Fields, here's the continuation of George Plimpton's famous interview of Ernest Hemingway from the Paris Review, Summer 1958. [citation needed]. [citation needed]. He did not appear last year, or the year before, and we feared he was done with us. Oh now, Im joking, Carnac ( see? From what other people had told me, I knew a little bit about itthat my father (and mother) had been right by Bobbys side in California when he was shot, that my father had tackled Sirhan Sirhan to the ground, and wrestled the gun from his handbut not a word of it came from my dad himself. As an old film buff, I am used to this voice, though it figures unevenly in old movies. Anyhow, I asked Terry Gross from Fresh Air and George Plimpton to be auctioneers. After her transformation, I noted that Mia sounds precisely like her mother, Maureen OSullivan, who had that patrician manner of speaking on and off screen. We made $15,000-20,000. tweedy demeanor and Oxford accent. 2) The Role of Broadway and Hollywood, and the Shift from Jimmy Cagney to Marlon Brando. On Saturday Night Live, even the great impersonator Dana Carvey couldnt get it quite right. Shootout at Rio Lobo", "The Smaller the Ball, the Better the Book: A Game Theory of Literature", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Plimpton&oldid=1137974740, This page was last edited on 7 February 2023, at 10:19. I only wish I could not tell him again, just one more time. He very much approved. Ive always heard it referred to as a patrician accent. When George told the story, DiMaggio laughed so hard I thought he was going to fall on the floor. He plays the 'fancy pants' to our outhouse Americana," Flaherty asserted. He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. . Here's how Geroge Plimpton and his team created a prodigious pitcher out of thin air. The clearest example of the Mid-Atlantic accent is the accent of the Frasier & Niles Crane characters on the TV show Frasier. Just listen to very early recordings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, back even before microphones, when singers had to yell directly into a large cone and over-enunciate so that their voices would be recorded into something intelligible on a spinning wax cylinder or disk. He rounded first as if he were about to go for a double, then glided back to the base, with fans waving and cheering. (What else happened that year??? [2], A November 6, 1971, cartoon in The New Yorker by Whitney Darrow Jr. shows a cleaning lady on her hands and knees scrubbing an office floor while saying to another one: "I'd like to see George Plimpton do this sometime." Discussing the accent he used for Washington in an interview with The Onion AV Club, he explained: The accent back then was probably nothing like what we think of as a Southern accent now or a New England accent now, so we tried to find the root of the accents. ), this isnt some kind of morbid contest to see who can be the first to inform the board of some celebritys death. Off screen, George Plimpton and Gore Vidal come to mind. George had three siblings: Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton Jr., Oakes Ames Plimpton,[15] and Sarah Gay Plimpton. *Originally posted by j.c. * Shed wandered out to the balcony of a lonely Manhattan cocktail party, and was standing out there, smoking a cigarette and looking down mournfully at the street far below, when from behind her she heard a voice: I know a better way down.. The young Paris Review editor and other New York literary figures arrived during a period marked by hope for a democratic Cuba. Plimpton appeared in the 1989 documentary The Tightrope Dancer which featured the life and the work of the artist Vali Myers. And the many candidates for the crown of Last American to Speak This Way. Articles From This Author. Plimpton was an optimist, a teller of amusing and amazing stories. Im having a harder time coming up with clear examples from the other side of the Atlantic, but Ive heard Alfred Molina (Londoner), and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Welsh) put on a Mid-Atlantic accent from time to time.. The coach for the Writers team announced that Plimpton would pinch-hit for the first batter of the game, Daily News sports columnist Mike Lupica, and the crowd roared. George Plimpton was a literary man about town who did it all, from co-founding The Paris . Plimpton played Tom Hanks's antagonistic father in Volunteers. Plimpton would not boast of his feat, so we did. He Was Shot by John Wayne. Almost twenty years ago, writing quirky sports pieces for the Village Voice, I decided to enter the world of championship arm wrestling.Like many young writers, I was inspired by the sports adventures of the gaunt but game George Plimpton, who had made a literary career out of placing himself in . He was one of her original supporters and had published an article about her work in The Paris Review. Did he have the celebrated Boston Brahmin accent, or was it a psuedo-Brit affectation? For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York's East Seventy-second street. Plimpton revisited pro football in 1971,[18] this time joining the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Colts and seeing action in an exhibition game against his previous team, the Lions. That is, until I saw the documentarythe assassination of his dear friend Bobby Kennedy. [citation needed] Some of these events, such as his stint with the Colts, and an attempt at stand-up comedy, were presented on the ABC television network as a series of specials. Macklem . He could have been a fight trainer, a fight manager! That was how it was in New York in those days, George just dragged it out a bit longer." Dudley Plimpton suspects the excess contributed to Plimpton's death in his sleep in 2003, at the age of 76. Return of the Big Bopper. So think of Margaret Anderson or Amanda and you can place George. Thurston Howell III had the Larchmont Lockjaw accent. Hes just trying it out and will come back and write a book about his experiences. The Wikipedia entry for it is quite detailed. If you were making a speech in a large hall, or speaking on the radio, you needed to enunciate very clearly and use a lot of emphases to be sure your audience could understand what you were saying. [Then] this August he showed up, pulled the shirt over his head, and said he was ready to bat. I saw him [last] Wednesday night at a party; we rode home together, and he told me that he was planning to go down to Cuba, to revisit the site of his famous interview with Hemingway. :rolleyes: Ive got news for you, buddy, youre not even second in line! Wed gone to dinner and the maitre d comes over and says, Felix, I got a call for you from Monaco., I pick up the phone, and I hear Georges Bostonian accent. She was the daughter of writers Willard R. Espy[39] and Hilda S. Cole, who had, earlier in her career, been a publicity agent for Kate Smith and Fred Waring. He was respected by all. *Originally posted by Phlosphr * **Mid-Atlantic. I think he came down [to the shooting of Paper Lion in] Florida once. I think the term Old Money or patrician pretty much says it. [19] Another sports book, Open Net, saw him train as an ice hockey goalie with the Boston Bruins, even playing part of a National Hockey League preseason game. On Sept. 26, George Plimpton died in his sleep, at the age of 76. After his discharge, Plimpton returned to Harvard and finished his undergraduate education. To me, Mid-Atlantic English is the nom juste for a related but distinct phenomenon (which is also mentioned in Wikipedia). When I eventually went back to be an editor at Harpers, I arrived at his flat, not having been in New York for eight years. Plimpton died on September 25, 2003, in his New York City apartment from a heart attack later determined to have been caused by a catecholamine surge. Since all we have are recordings of those long-vanished voices, we do not and cannot know whether people spoke "this way" when they were not being recorded, although I would be willing to wager that they did not. (A variation is the Locust Valley Lockjaw.). When he was on the scene, everything was a big happeningan event. He looked like a very eccentric old Englishman. I didnt know he was from the Larchmont area. George Plimpton. Archie Moore, after all, had broken his nose. Thats where there was that cross-section you once found in Parisof literary people, of people who were illiterate, of people down on their luck, and people of status. Vault. Eerily enough, one of the messages on my answering machine was from George, with that distinctive accent of his: Hallo, its George Plimpton. Puss, and my father enjoyed nothing more than holding the beast high in the air and making strange, affectionate sounds in that distinguished voice: Yeanngghh, Puss Yeaannngh Puss Puss Puss.) He called my sister Puss, too, sometimes, though mostly I think with her it was Kiddo, which he also called me, though there was a period in which he occasionally called me Ernie, which was the dogs name. The clipped, non-rhotic English accents of George Plimpton and William F. Buckley Jr. were vestigial examples.
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