Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/187: Difference between revisions

We may all have a social image of ourselves, close to the despised image of ourselves. Thus, I always see myself as the sweet clumsy anxious to please Middle-class Jewish boy, and socially I admire poise, coolness, manners, elegance. Many of our relations with people consist entirely of our admiration for their social face. Those are the relations where I remain fixed in certain kinds of habit and speech and never can express myself. As it used to be with Ted Amussen,{{LJ:Amussen}} Stan Rinehart,{{LJ:Rinehart}} John Aldridge,{{refn|A prolific literary critic and professor at the University of Michigan, [[w:John W. Aldridge|Aldridge]] (1922-2007) had a warm relationship with NM for several decades. He gave thoughtful and generally positive reviews to most of NM’s important books, but cared little for ''DP''.}} and many others.