Enticing black-and-white photograph in book about "the 1960s" --
George Plimpton's Cocktail Party
Big living room with two conversation areas (visible in photo) and people standing, sitting.
(Thought one guy looked like a young Henry Kissinger but now don't think so after all.)
The people look animated, heartily intense. Enthusiastic.
I can imagine myself at that cocktail party.
(Step into the photo...)
Paragraph under reads,
[credit TIME, Visions of the 1960s, Copyright 2010 TIME Home Entertainment Inc.]
"No, this isn't a backstage shot from Mad Men; it's a cocktail party at the Upper East Side apartment of Paris Review editor George Plimpton, who would carve out an amusing sideline for himself in the'60s as a sort of Everyman of sports, beginning with his popular 1966 book recounting his attempts to play football with the NFL's Detroit Lions, Paper Lion.
The cattle call of the chattering classes shown above features a host of notables; we won't name them all, but for those who enjoy Where's Waldo?, here are some of the attendees: Ralph Ellison, Peter Matthiessen, Sidney Lumet, Arthur Kopit, Arthur Penn and Truman Capote. Host Plimpton is seated in the left foreground, next to literary agent Maggie Abbott.
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"The chattering classes."
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I like that GAL.
ReplyDeleteThis is scratching my brain with a faint memory. Was it the authors' names? Maybe they remind me of the books that lined the bookshelves of my neighbor who read everything? I can't quite grasp the memory, dang it.