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There's nothing like an historical memory to endear a woman to the charms of male society...
...which seems to derive much of its momentum from the revelation, at well-spaced intervals, of its members' sexual habits. Bloomsbury, was, we know now, stranger than we could have imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism have all been the subject of recent studies. At the center of it all stands Virginia Woolf, whose sexuality...
...hard time shaking. While as a fictioneer he likes to wallow in romance, as a social commentator he writes an analysis of Harvard club life which is the sort of hogwash upon which climbers thrive. But just because this isn't the sort of biography that will endear Marquand to posterity doesn't mean that it isn't entertaining...
...Princeton relay team, anchored by another strong 1:43 leg by Campbell, broke yet another meet record with the time of 6:53.317. but their fans, screaming and yelling childishly all evening, did little to endear their team to the other participants...
...elevated Mississippi riverfront expressway, which would have been an aesthetic catastrophe for the graceful Vieux Carré. They launched a thorough investigation of the project and within two weeks produced a detailed report showing the expressway to be the result of shoddy planning. Their findings did not endear them to the Chamber of Commerce-nor, they were astonished to find, to many of their lifelong friends. They were quietly but firmly pushed out of what they refer to as the "velvet rut." Says Borah: 'If you are born in the right family and keep your mouth shut...