was dominated by a single question: “?” It blared the era’s sense of alarm. The magazine had sent a questionnaire to its most famous affiliates—novelists, critics, socialists, a poet—who weighed in on the “moral and political crisis” that had seized the country and left the intelligentsia in a state of baffled horror. The horror was humiliating. Reality seemed to have roared past logic, invalidating the kind of delicately calibrated opinion that had given intellectuals prestige and purpose.
Diana Trilling, the only female respondent besides Sontag, knew a lot about the habits and styles of the “American intellectual.” She was one, after all: she had published a collection of essays and would go on to publish two others, along with a memoir and a book-length work of reportage. She was married to the illustrious literary critic Lionel Trilling, and both were members of the loose, largely Jewish group known as the New York Intellectuals.
It was either apt or ironic, then, that she spent much of her life deferring to and excusing the man she married. “I wanted as much for him as he wanted for himself and more than I wanted for myself,” she once wrote. Throughout their life together, she was his interlocutor, editor, domestic ballast, and emotional scapegoat. She was the key to his literary triumph. And she would attempt—with delayed, complicated success—to triumph herself.
Note on D after seeing her at dinner: she is still desirable, simply, and a splendid woman; also I suppose is a more or less educated and sophisticated woman, idiosyncratic etc. But evidently not much beyond that. Her body is lovely to touch but her laugh and her voice irritate me and her talk does not stimulate but rather represses, although I do not think her stupid but rather lazy.
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