Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Needing some symbol of their status, the residents of Park Avenue have commissioned a largely symbolic guard. The Vatican has the Swiss Guard; Park Avenue has its doormen...
...Plympton St. From some exotic port. But these visions were only delusions of grandeur. Getting ready for my second year at Harvard, I knew I would have to favor fiscal prudence over extravagance. So, instead of traveling the world, I merely commute--from my home in the Bronx to Park Avenue to work as a doorman...
While I can make the trip from staid door to chic door in half an hour, Park Avenue is the proverbial world apart, providing enough culture shock to satisfy the stymied traveler...
...failed to apply "Bonfire of the Vanities" to the real world in the particular, this summer I think I might have succeeded in the abstract. The image suggested by Wolfe's title exists in the daily routine on Park Avenue: there, people sacrifice efficiency to pretense and ceremony. While the bonfire is not the conflagration that consumes Sherman McCoy, it is kindled by petty vanities...
Even with these difficulties, it is easier to get mail up to apartments than it is to get guests up to their hosts. On Park Avenue, a ubiquitous reminder of class is the sign in every lobby that informs, "All visitors must be announced." We doormen are to herald the arrival of all guests at their host's court. Normally, this is a pro forma procedure. The host knows someone is coming, awaits that person, receives a call from us when the guest arrives and instructs us to send him up. This system prevents uninvited visitors. But for every Jehovah...