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...descendant of cultured Germans, Henry Louis was raised in a complacent atmosphere. But he was born with sand under his skin, and the works of Nietzsche exerted an irresistible appeal. Mencken became a believer in the Übermensch, a scoffer at the great unwashed. Like Oscar Wilde, he made a success by reversing traditions. To believers, he played the village atheist. To prohibitionists, he was a beery provocateur. To the U.S. at large, he was an intellectual who saw culture only in Europe. "The average citizen of a democracy," he announced, "is a goose-stepping ignoramus ... The average democratic politician...
...scorching sun roasts the skeletons of jacaranda trees. The soil, dry and hard, looks like baked clay. Rivers, once navigated by 5,000-ton ships, are now so choked by sand bars that a canoe can barely nose through. Bridges cross dry gulches overgrown with weeds and shrubs. Many once plentiful plants and birds are gone, and human beings who live there are disfigured by skin cancer. The scene is 300 sq. mi. in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, a once lush strip north of Rio de Janeiro that is now on its way to becoming a desert...
...morning, fly to Saratoga to watch the races and have lunch, and be back on the Cape for another swim in the late afternoon. What nature has not provided, money has. Perfect in every other respect, the Cape Cod house at Oyster Harbors was lacking in scenic sand dunes. The solution? Import 2,000 tons of sand. Everything, however, is done with a lack of ostentation. In Virginia Paul has provided his horse breeder with a house that looks more impressive than...
...disheartened group of Harvard linksters who came into the clubhouse after the morning 18, but then they realized the rest of the field was also finding bunker shots comparable to hitting into a sand storm in the Gobi desert...
Alexander played the role of the Crimson's D'Artagnan of the links, brandishing rapier-sharp irons after not having played all of last week because of hourlies. He was two-under par after seven holes when he impaled sand wedge shots on the flagstick for birdies on the third and sixth holes. He finished even for the front nine when he took three-putt bogeys on number eight and nine...