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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zuckerman describes himself as a "newspaper and magazine junkie" who would "drive 30 miles for a New York Times." He counts as friends such journalistic heavies as Writers Richard Goodwin and Doris Kearns and New Republic Editor and Publisher Martin Peretz. "Acquiring the Atlantic expands my personal life into more of a professional involvement," says Zuckerman. A man who has worked with him suggests he also wants the magazine for its cachet: "He's very bright and very insecure, and has an overwhelming need for acceptance within a certain circle of society...
...Once in a while, I'd be sent on a mission away from the immediate vicinity of the Times and into the sweltering heat. My travels spanned the city--from Washington Square Park to the United Nations, from Al's Deli to a retired editor's house on Riverside Drive to deliver his collection of memorabilia...
...believe that they were everywhere, my young married cousin invited me over for tea with her husband the doctor. As soon as I walked in the door she muttered something about my complexion. When I asked for a Coke, she brought me a glass of milk. She offered to drive me to the beach so I could gather shells. During the car ride back to the spa, my cousin asked me about my grade-point average and if he is Jewish...
...party in Denver was small, just Sammy and Rick and Julie and Dina. Deena, said Dina. They went to a drive-in. This is my first time, said Sammy, and he almost dropped the speaker out the window. None of them liked beer so they brought wine. When the movie ended, Rick was asleep in Julie's lap in the back seat. Sammy liked the movie. They went to Julie's house and watched TV but they had finished the wine and the wine had finished Rick and no one wanted to sleep more than Julia so Sammy and Dina...
...American boys play football on the Neckarvise, the grassy bank of the river. On a Sunday afternoon, no trace remains of last night's cowboys or clowns, only docile families, discreet and not-so-discreet sweethearts, and decrepit ice cream peddlers. The Germans don't play American football or drive Mercedes, and they resent the wealthy foreigners who make no attempt to learn their language. Although the Germans respect American business expertise, they think of Americans as naive, ill-mannered, and offensively chauvinistic. American visitors often bear out the Germans' worst expectations...