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Irene Silverman, a wealthy 82-year-old widow, was very particular about who rented the eight antique-filled apartments in her swank Manhattan town house. But when 23-year-old Manny Guerin sauntered into her marble lobby in mid-June, she readily handed over the keys to a first-floor flat. Guerin, who dropped the name of a friend of a friend of Silverman's, seemed an ideal fit for her upper-class boardinghouse. Six feet tall with blue eyes and slicked-back blond hair, he was a smooth talker with a Jay Gatsby wardrobe. He tooled around town...
...British historian Alan Bullock's early interpretation, for example, had Hitler as, among other things, a cunning, low-rent charlatan. The other great British Hitler explainer, H.R. Trevor-Roper, constructed a Fuhrer on the grand, demonic scale: a Great Bad Man theory of history. Between the poles of Bullock and Trevor-Roper, historians, psychologists and others have brought an anguished ingenuity to trying to account for the monster or, in the newest scholarly and academic literature, to dismiss the old "Hitler-centric" theories in favor of larger abstractions (the German character, Christian anti-Semitism...
...suggest than Horn has an all-too-elusive grasp on the real world, like her reference to paychecks. Way passe! Anybody with any sort of a marginally permanent job these days (that's one where you're pretty confident you'll still be working tomorrow) has direct deposit. And rent! Paying rent is a clear sign of early-real-personhood (the stage where I still reside). Advanced (or real) real personhood involves shedding rent in favor of mortgage payments, thus assuming a debt burden even greater than your student loans...
...careful. If you have rotten kids, they can kick you out after the specified period. Hint: write in an option to rent the house as long as you like. Another catch is that you have to live the full term. Die early, and it's like the trust never existed. It works best for a vacation home because you're not parting with the house you live in and because heirs inherit the house at a low cost. And if they sell, they face a whopping capital-gains tax. Still, without the trust, estate taxes would claim an even bigger...
...does errands in the evenings and on weekends (no homework, imagine!) and supports him or herself financially. Real people live in apartments, not dorms, and they have kitchens, not cafeterias. They are able to feed themselves and wear suits or skirts to work and receive paychecks and pay rent. At the most advanced stages of real-personhood, real people might even get married and have children. At that point, even if one does an about-face and decides to go to graduate school, there's no turning back: apparently, that's when you become stuck in real-person-land forever...