I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I’m still living in one!… The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs — all the old clubs — are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today…. Where is this ‘vanished world’ they talk about? I don’t think the critics have looked out the window!
