That glib, relaxed condescension, ratified by the sexual politics of the day, trickled through the Trillings' nearly five decades of marriage.
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Today, the better part of liberalism is Trillings — or those who'd like to be, at any rate — and everyone can hear them.
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The Trillings brought Mr. Podhoretz into the world of New York intellectuals: Daniel Bell, Irving Howe, Kazin, Murray Kempton, Irving Kristol, Mary McCarthy and Delmore Schwartz, among others.
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Instead of drawing out and elaborating on the sexual politics of the Trillings' marriage—how the betrayals slotted into their time and place—Robins gives us a traipsing, chattily neutral catalogue of facts.
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" Yet the Trillings, despite their public stature, were in many ways furled, inward-turning personalities: "We did not have eventful lives, as this would perhaps now be understood, but our private drama had its intensity.
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He called crossing the East River "one of the longest journeys in the world," and he believed, correctly, that his story was also, more or less, the story of many of the people he hoped would admire the book—people like Bell, the Trillings, and the writers and editors at places like Dissent , The New Leader , Partisan Review , and The New York Review of Books .
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They wandered about some more, listened for a short time to the trillings of a robustious prima donna come upon evil days.
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An interesting feature of its crystals are the cyclic twins called trillings. These twinned crystals have a hexagonal appearance, but are the result of a triplet of twins with each "twin" oriented at 120° to its neighbors and taking up 120° of the cyclic trilling. If only two of the three possible twin orientations are present, a "V"-shaped twin results. Ordinary chrysoberyl is yellowish-green and transparent to translucent.
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Tridymite is a high-temperature polymorph of silica and usually occurs as minute tabular white or colorless pseudo-hexagonal crystals, or scales, in cavities in felsic volcanic rocks. Its chemical formula is SiO2. Tridymite was first described in 1868 and the type location is in Hidalgo, Mexico. The name is from the Greek tridymos for triplet as tridymite commonly occurs as twinned crystal trillings (compound crystals comprising three twinned crystal components).
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