[jjotto]

He went to Oxford for three years on an academic scholarship. Pulitzer Prize winner. Not someone who needed extra pull to get into Harvard Med. Did some pioneering work in psychiatry.

And he did indeed start out in hard sciences, switching to liberal arts later out of interest, not lack of accomplishment.

I’m not really a K fan, but his brains and accomplishments can’t be denied.

[Mamzelle]

I've known a few who went to Cambridge or Oxford for lib degrees. Amazing how that Brit cachet does impress! But, not me, I'm afraid. I'd rather see an A in biochemistry from U of State. They like Yanks because they pay the tuition. It's true. It's easy to get into either school if you have the ready. And they give a LOT of "gentlemen's C's"--

He's well-spoken. He can generate a competent sentence. Whatever intelligence he has, it's not enough to allow for all that overweening and obnoxious condescension.

I'm still holding out for that pull that all the Partisan Review gentility had with the Ivies. My mom does Mah Jong with your mom, and all.