[lbo-talk] WP: Fun Profile of Lewis Lapham

[Jim Devine]

>"The CIA was in temporary buildings, Quonset huts down by the Lincoln
Memorial," {Lewis Lapham] says. "The interview was at a wooden table
with four guys, all from Yale. They were of a type that I had come to
ridicule at Yale -- the George W. Bush type."


>What type is that?


>"Eastern, rich, privileged, arrogant, perennial cheerleader," he
says, the adjectives rolling out in his patrician voice.<

It's true that back in the 1950s, the CIA was a Yalie haven. It's
quite possible that William Buckley, Jr. was one of them. I doubt that
it's an Ivy League place now. Philip Agee says in  "Inside the
Company" that the Agency had started to recruit at Catholic and Second
Tier colleges when he joined.

On 3/21/06, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> [Also the description of Harper's finances is kind of stunning.  I've always
> heard all serious magazines' balance sheets look like this, but I was still
> a bit taken aback.]
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/20/AR2006032001945_pf.html
>
> Michael
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