democracy - men grew tired of the responsibility of living free with no higher law than the criminal code to define the use of freedom - their spirits corrupt and fat."
His was not an uneducated upbringing: both the theater-oriented father and the genteel-defined mother were in agreement upon the importance of education for their children. Eugene spent years at high-quality Catholic boarding schools in New York. High school was the Betts Academy in Connecticut, an East Coast "Brahmin," non-Catholic institution
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