Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pocketed, defunct charity would find the money to make the accounts right. Also unclear was how much the episode had shaken George Bush's faith in his top aide. At best, Sununu has embarrassed himself and his boss. At worst, he might even share the fate of his idol Sherman Adams, the New Hampshire Governor who was forced out as Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff in 1958 after accepting a $500 vicuna coat from Bernard Goldfine, a Boston textile magnate...
...victim to consumers' changing tastes. A generation weaned on fast-food outlets didn't see the point of all the fancy fixtures and the diverse menu. Nor did the upscale power lunchers have any use for the Automats' simple fare. "Those who've become successful stopped coming," says Michael Sherman, an executive vice president at Horn & Hardart, which is now concentrating on direct-mail catalogs. "They've been calling to ask why it's closing. I ask them, 'When was the last time you were there...
Which returns my gaze to the wreckage. Out of all these broken things, I pull pieces for my collection, detritis, filed away and rigorously catalogued. The architects of cowardice come from all sides: the pacifists, Albert Camus, Kurt Schwitters, Ilya Kabakov, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ross McElwee's "Sherman's March," Sidney Lumet's "The Pawnbroker," Robert Oppen-heimer, Ella Baker. It is not much, but, as King said in '67, "Now there is little left to build on--save bitterness...
...grillroom of Washington's Metropolitan Club, a venerable institution once presided over by General William Tecumseh Sherman, the father of modern warfare, the diners grew silent last Wednesday when Secretary of State James Baker appeared on a television screen to declare that his talks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz had failed...
Aaah, aaaahh, aaaaaah, aaaaahhhh. And also, possibly -- why not? -- aaaaahhhhhhhh. These are the onomatopoetics of anguish (and perverse exhilaration) as rendered by Tom Wolfe toward the end of The Bonfire of the Vanities. They are the sounds made by his protagonist, Sherman McCoy, as he at last acknowledges that he is an all too human animal: capable of rage and deceit and all the other low emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning...