"Auchincloss was a disaster from the start. He had no friends. He was a failure both as an athlete and a scholar, but, more than that, he was, as he later put it, 'naturally unpopular,' possessing that indefinable but unmistakable quality that signals to his peers that a boy is to be ostracized and tormented. He was sneered at, called Rebecca for the Jewish appearance of his nose, kicked and shoved."
--From "East Side Story" by Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker February 25, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
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Naturally unpopular. Sigh...
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