"...sipping cocktails..."
Sipping? Not "having" or "drinking"? Doesn't The Press Club ban journalists for that kind of behavior? Whatever happened to two fisted bourbon guzzling?
What you have there is a memoir masquerading as a diary. All Steyn's excerpts sound as if they have been written long after the actual events. Did Schlesinger actually sit down on the very Day and write airily of sipping cocktails with Newsweek editors? I keep a diary, and mine only sounds like that when I get behind and have to write down events long afterward. (And then it doesn't sound like *that*, of course, but you see what I mean.)
Steyn is silly about the shirtsleeves thing. They were probably in a posh bar, all suits and ties, and a guy in his shirtsleeves would've stood out. (Not to mention it was November.) Of course that would mean, as DaninVan suggests, that the Newsweek people were sleek modern "journalists" rather than two-fisted, hard-drinking newspapermen.
GAH! Not Steyn, of course, O'Rourke. What was I thinking? P.J. is far more catty.
Posted at 2007-12-30 11:58:13 [PermaLink]The older he got the more he looked like Foster Hewitt.
Posted at 2007-12-31 08:45:21 [PermaLink]