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...victory was not easy for the Pittsburgh-area congressman. Green, a Philadelphian and son of one of Pennsylvania's most powerful bosses, the late Bill Green Jr., has cultivated extensive support from the Democratic machine, which possesses a 700,000 margin in registered voters over the Republican Party...
...Walter Randall, '36, is the archetype of the old-school Harvard grad. Not a Philadelphian by birth but a fairly long-time resident in a wealthy hidden-away province, southwest of the city. Randall represents the interests of a small faction of older alumni interested in restoring some element of "clubbiness" to Philadelphian graduates. Randall sees the present club's chieftains--who do a great deal to mold the policies of the alumni in the city--as a looseknit, often too business-like group of younger turks who believe the club's only duty is soliciting new membership dues...
James's intention was to reveal the hypocrisies of the snobbish upper classes. His little sketch of Daisy is the portrayal of everything they scorn; even more, it is an affront to the whole of Victorian society and its stiff, sexual repression. Daisy, said one Philadelphian publisher in rejecting the long story written in 1878, was "an outrage to American girlhood." Yet, Daisy is not an outrage: She is the one alive person in the story amidst a virtual morgue of grey propriety. She's also coquettish, a flirt of the worst sort, and a damnable tease. But throughout...
...sister Fanny about the Boston Jubilee in the summer of 1869. The letter, one of 20 recently given to the Archives of American Art, a part of the Smithsonian complex in Washington, D.C., went on to observe that "Bostonians have music on the brain." Added the proper Philadelphian: "God forbid they should get art there, or they will get some hundred firemen to copy a Jerome or Meissonier a thousand times bigger than the original to hang up in their coliseum...
...goal, although debatably a dangerous that which is illegal in field hockey, was ruled fair by the two Philadelphian National players who efficiated the match...