![]() "We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great, squishy, heated waterbed of the sixties." Still, the Midwest didn't easily release its grip. The other life departure was from lonely small-town bedrooms. He began to seek out and cultivate arty-literary connections to complete his separation from midwestern roots where they "rolled up the sidewalks at 6 p.m." The snob standard was East Coast cerebral, to the extent that a new White friend was mortified at the thought that his New York circle might learn his boyfriend directed films in Hollywood. ![]() ![]() Already a committed Susan Sontag fan, White dreamed of meeting her on the street. Soon he and Stan were sharing a $100-a-month apartment a stone's throw from Washington Square. Fresh out of the University of Michigan in the 1960s, White was set to begin a PhD at Harvard when he got waylaid by a Village boy. ![]()
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