Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scope of her travels has expanded since high school days, and international trips have become almost habitual. Rodriguez has studied in Moscow, West Berlin and Poland. And the Sherman Fellowship she won her sophomore year will take her to Leningrad after graduation. Her long list of honors includes the Radcliffe Murray Fellowship and the Lowe Foundation Fellowship, as well as two awards from outside organizations--one from the American Council of Teachers of Russians, and one from the Council on International Educational Exchange...
Wolfe, in his new novel, tells the story of a different type of salesman, Sherman McCoy, a Yale-educated bond trader. Wolfe's incarnation still resonates with the uniquely American dilemmas of social adjustment. McCoy too wants to be well-liked, although he defines success more in terms of the quantity of party invitations he receives than the number of smiles from a housewife...
...other group leaders are: Law School Lecturer Deborah Anker; Eileen Babbitt, associate director of the Public Disputes program at the Law School; David Lampe, author of the recently published book, "The Massachusetts Miracle; High Technology and Economic Revitalization"; Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan; Tufts International Relations Lecturer Sherman Teichman; and Brad Minnick, chief of staff to the Minority Leader of the state House of Representatives...
...that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor...twelve-foot ceilings...two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help... Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachsund. The floor was a deep green marble, and it went on and on. It led to a five-foot walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above. It was the sort of apartment the mere thought of which ignites flames...
...Sherman Chamberlain...