DIANA TRILLING
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could you foresee anything else? What was the nature of my
debate with Mary McCarthy in the
New York Review of Books
ex–
cept to say that of course the Americans had to get out of Viet–
nam, but it was a tragedy because of what was going to be left
behind them? I didn't yet know about boat people but I was fore–
seeing just such a tragic outcome.
DM:
Well, that's just a matter of words and so on.
DT:
It's far more than words, Dwight. But I'm not going to argue
with you anymore. It's your interview, after all. (Laughter.)
Diana Trilling's last book was
Mrs. Harris,
published by Harcourt
Brace jovanovich. She is now working on a book that is both a personal memoir
and a biography of her husband, Lionel Trilling, tentatively titled
Biography
of a Marriage.
FREUD
AND THE CULTURE OF
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Studies in the Transition from
Victorian Humanism to Modernity
Steven Marcus
Cloth $24.95
240pp.
1984
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