Admission (2009)
“I grew up hearing my grandfather’s stories about rowing on Lake Carnegie, and my parents’ (much less dignified!) accounts of Saturday nights on Prospect. Certainly, all three of them have enormous affection for the institution, but they have not spared me the difficulties of being African-American at a place like Princeton in the 1950s, and even, for my parents, in the 1980s. In spite of this, I grew up understanding that Princeton was a place where amazing things could be experienced, and it h...as always been my passionate wish to follow my parents and grandfather.
CHAPTER TWENTY FAIR IS KIND OF AN IMPRECISE CONCEPT The family chin that John had once briefly mentioned, months earlier in a dark hotel room in New Hampshire, materialized that evening on the various faces of his father, sister, and niece. It was a broad chin and quite masculine, which was somewhat less successful on the women, but it lent John’s sister, Diana, in particular, an air of command. This was matched by a personality at once insistent and impatient, though just on the near side of rude.MoreLess
CHAPTER TWENTY FAIR IS KIND OF AN IMPRECISE CONCEPT The family chin that John had once briefly mentioned, months earlier in a dark hotel room in New Hampshire, materialized that evening on the various faces of his father, sister, and niece. It was a broad chin and quite masculine, which was somewhat less successful on the women, but it lent John’s sister, Diana, in particular, an air of command. This was matched by a personality at once insistent and impatient, though just on the near side of rude.MoreLess
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