Nathan

The New Yorker: "Kravinsky, whose unrestrained disbursement of his assets-first financial, then corporeal-has sometimes been unsettling for the people close to him, grew up in a row house in the working-class Philadelphia neighborhood of Oxford Circle, amid revolutionary rhetoric. 'My father would say how great things were in the Soviet Union, and how shabby they were here,' Kravinsky recalled recently. 'He would rail against rich people and the ruling class.'"