Truth Comes in Blows
Ted Solotaroff
1998
I’d known right away that I’d dressed all wrong for the interview, and I sensed even this early that it was becoming a formality. I’d prepared myself to play it in Jack Carter’s cool way. But the imp of outspokenness in me now broke loose and decided to make it interesting. “As I understand it, the few spots for Jews at Yale are intensely…
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