BEING interviewed by TIME for a cover story, says Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is "like an interview with my friend Erving Goffman, the sociologist. He watches you, and you watch him watching you, and he watches you watching him watching you. There is nothing like a TIME cover. It is a classic. Depending on how it comes out, it's either like Boswell and Johnson or Strachey and Queen Victoria."
We are not sure whether our subject will judge this week's cover story in the Boswell or Strachey tradition or possibly in some other category. At...
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