he saw a world polished and healed from war and papered over where it couldnt heal or polish , and he forced himself into the circles of names you would expect to hear dropped , the literary men and women and the artists , the pearls and the poses and the careful tilts of the head and the seeing to be seen and the dinner jackets and the cufflinks , and the philanthropist sponsors and the would-be philosophers who thought or sought to rein in a formula to attach to this or that tide of conceit , or at least to give one a name that lent itself to repeated reminting and concomitant fame when cast in print .