Her present book is a sort of envoi to an intellectual life that, for the memoirist, began to wane 20 years ago.
I was amused to read your moralistic envoi to the Carnegie-Kahn way of living, in the same issue that described, with evident relish, the Byzantine extravagance of Cole Porter's .
Sinatra's definitive version was an envoi to a lost love and a derailed life; Bennett's is a swagger, a roguish kiss-off.