Encounter In Munich

Encounter in Munich"We can't bear America," my hostess was saying with the uneasy casualness of a Smith graduate dismissing her coming-out party. "My mother says in every other letter, 'You've been gone eight years. You're going to be one of those Americans who never come home.'" Her gesture with the glass of champagne punch was in shorthand. "But if you can't stand living in America, why feel you have to do it? Why apologize?"What could I reply? It was her apartmen...