Word: shermans
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Judge Arthur Sherman '50 ordered that court records indicate that Robert F. Burns of East Boston and Lawrence R. Countryman '83 of Cambridge admitted only to misdemeanor charges of lewd and lascivious behavior...
...hearing February 13, seven of the men arrested had their cases continued without a finding. However, Judge Arthur Sherman '50 assessed those men more than $300 in court costs...
Talent's foil, Guy Clinch, is a British Sherman McCoy, the Wall Street fall guy of The Bonfire of the Vanities. "He had a tremendous amount of money, excellent health, handsomeness, height, a capriciously original mind; and he was lifeless," writes Amis of Clinch. Samson Young, the narrator and American scribbler who thinks he is writing Amis' novel, represents cultural lowlife. "A little media talk and Manhattan networking soon schmoozed her into shape" is his oily take on subduing Guy's wife Hope...
...even have to go back to Lincoln's Civil War suspension of habeas corpus, let alone Sherman's march through Georgia. Consider that during the last Palestinian intifadeh, the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, the British were in charge of Palestine. They put down the revolt "without mercy, without qualms," writes Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami. Entire villages were razed. More than 3,000 Palestinians were killed. In 1939 alone, the British hanged 109. (Israel has no death penalty...
There was Sherman McCoy, the doomed bond trader of The Bonfire of the Vanities, a self-styled Master of the Universe, undone by ambition, facing disgrace, jail and the most hideous possibility of all, subways...