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Chauncey was born Feb. 9, 1905, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the first child of Episcopalian minister Egisto Fabbri Chauncey and deaconess Edith Lockwood Taft Chauncey...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SAT Father, Harvard Advisor Dies at 97 | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

Gordon offered a literary perspective, discussing the commodification of women through the marriage contract in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CNBC President Says Women Important in Finances | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...Tammany Hall and, if he was too lazy to go to the bathroom, he'd take a whizz out the dining room window. Lorenz had Papa's appetite for excess and Mama's love of lore. He had his mother's height too: a shade under five feet. Edith Meiser, who would star in Rodgers and Hart shows, described Larry as "the American Toulouse-Lautrec ... an enchanting man. He had such appeal.... He had this enormous head and a very heavy beard that had to be shaved twice a day... And he was always rubbing his hands together. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Heart to Hart | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

DIED. R.W.B. LEWIS, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning author (for 1975's Edith Wharton: A Biography) and longtime Yale scholar who helped pioneer the field of American Studies; of cancer; in Bethany, Conn. A professor of English and American studies for 29 years, Lewis published his last work, a biography of Dante, to critical acclaim last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 24, 2002 | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...HOBNOBBING WITH THE SNOBS: Kirkus is amused by "Snobbery: The American Version" by Joseph Epstein (Houghton Mifflin; July 9). "Clever, prolific Epstein turns his wit to the pernicious, universal failing previously addressed by such worthies as Edith Wharton, Tom Wolfe, Russell Lynes, and even Father Mencken, among countless others. Dissecting snobbery in all its current manifestations, Epstein (English/Northwestern) examines the ways in which people who pursue lives of invidious comparison may judge you (and surely find you wanting) in matters of employment, education, income, affiliations, intellectual interests, spouse(s), ethnicity, favored comestibles, politics, celebrity, dogs and not least progeny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Brown Sugar and Buzz | 5/28/2002 | See Source »

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