"The Theory of Silence," has its limits.

"He's a non-practicing homosexual." "You Jews."

“Those people,” said George.

When I heard those words at the Upper East Side dinner table, uttered by George (a pseudonym) a senior citizen lawyer, “with impeccable manners,” forced out of his law partnership by partners who attend shul, my visceral reaction was to tear in to him, but I decided not to embarrass my hostess, who had often uttered the same,…