By Elise Knutsen 11/08/11 8:55am

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DEERFIELD ACADEMY: Philip Greer

The Elite of the Elite: 2011 Private School Power Players

For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a time of pleasure and company, tables heaping with food and surrounded by families and friends. But for a select few, this time of year brings on a feeling of envy and dread: You only get one chance to provide your children with entrée into elite society—and we’re not talking about dark meat. That’s right, frenzied mothers and fathers throughout Manhattan are working around the clock to finish their kids’ applications to top private schools. This is not child’s play. Read More

By Nancy Dalva 4:18pm

Louis Auchincloss at 90: Nasty Nookie in the Night

THE HEADMASTER’S DILEMMA
By Louis Auchincloss
Houghton Mifflin, 192 pages, $25

Louis Auchincloss’ fans will be happy to celebrate his 90th birthday later this month with The Headmaster’s Dilemma, a novel that puts his grand total at more than 60 books of assorted fiction and nonfiction. Many were written while he was a Read More

By Michael M. Thomas 7/19/99 12:00am

Manhattan Has Gone to the Hicks: Us!

What’s in a word? Or, rather, Who?

“Curmudgeon,” for example.

My Random House Unabridged (Second Edition) defines the word as “a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person,” and gives as synonyms, “grouch, crank, bear, sourpuss, crosspatch.” Not, in other words, the essence of jolly, “you leave it, I’ll take it” optimism. I bring this up because, Read More