The sheer restfulness of good breeding—Manhasset, Kiluna Farm:
“Bill [Paley] was able to re-create every aspect of the old WASP elite-except its essence. Seymour St. John, Choate's revered headmaster, talked about ‘the sheer restfulness of good breeding.’ …
It took no more than a decade or so of close observation to effect all the external behavior of a lady or a gentleman, but it was that restfulness that occurred only over generations. As much as Bill pretended, he did not have that quality-and neither did Babe [Paley], standing so close to her husband that she became in some ways his emotional clone.”
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