On 6/23/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> [Lou Proyect - from whom I first got this quote years ago - just sent
> me the original. Here it is.]
>
> "Among the crude Titans was Henry Kissinger. In the next few days he
> and I attended a half-dozen functions together. I have no idea what
> he was doing memorializing the American Academy; but the people who
> give money for such causes have made something of a pet of him,
> rather as they had made of Truman Capote in an earlier time. Although
> Kissinger and I were careful to keep some distance apart, I could
> hear the ceaseless rumbling voice in every corner of the chapel. The
> German accent is more pronounced in Europe than on television at
> home. He has a brother who came to America when he did. Recently, the
> brother was asked why he had no German accent but Henry did.
> 'Because,' said the brother, 'Henry never listens.' As I left him
> gazing thoughtfully at the hell section of The Last Judgment (as
> pretty and bright now as Tiepolo), I said to the lady with me, 'Look,
> he's apartment hunting.'
>
> (From "Palimpest")
>
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