"[Lionel] Trilling. I thought that my own feelings were bad enough, but it turns out that his animus against me is even worse. And what has it been about all these years? T[rilling] cannot stand my temperament—he cannot stand the ghetto Jew in me—he cannot stand my vitality. L.T., the would-be gentleman—the little gentleman."
~~ from Alfred Kazin's Journals, Selected and Edited by Richard M. Cook
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