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Wolfe's main conceit is that the upper classes are especially vulnerable to prejudicial treatment if they lose their insulation. Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue and Southampton, the leading bond salesman at Pierce & Pierce, learns this harsh lesson when he is arrested for hit-and-run driving and plummets from a "Master of the Universe" to "the Great White Defendant," the dream of every ambitious $36,000-a-year assistant district attorney...
Middle-aged married female readers will be unsympathetic and even gleeful about Sherman's downfall. He is driving his young mistress Maria Ruskin home from Kennedy International Airport and feeling on top of the world when he mistakenly turns off the highway and gets lost in the South Bronx. There is a confrontation with two black youths, a scuffle, a hasty escape with the girlfriend now behind the wheel of his black Mercedes sports car. There is also a suspicious thok! against...
Maria, a bed-wise South Carolina belle and wife of an aging Jewish businessman who has made a fortune selling charter flights to Mecca-bound Arabs, discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...
...Fire House, Lexington Entry 9 4 Branch Library, Aberdeen Ave. 9 5 Haggerty School, Cushing St. 10 1 V.F.W. Post #7353, 2103 Mass. Ave. Russell St. Entry 10 2 North Cambridge Senior Center, 2050 Mass. Ave. 10 3 Cambridge Friends School, Cadbury Road 10 4 Fire House, Taylor Square (Sherman St. at Garden St.) 10 5 Fire House, Taylor Square (Sherman St. at Garden St.) 11 1 North Cambridge Public Library (Fitzgerald School) 70 Rindge Ave. 11 2 Rindge Shelter, Entry From Fitzgerald School Playground 11 3 St. John's School, 122 Rindge Ave. 11 4 Rindge Shelter, Entry From...
Antitrust. Bork has had formidable influence in the field of antitrust, his legal specialty. His view that Congress, which entered the fray with the 1890 Sherman Act, intended to prohibit only those mergers that discourage "economic efficiency" has many followers in the antitrust division of the Reagan Justice Department. Bork finds fault with most of the subsequent attempts by Congress to define anticompetitive practices and to interfere with vertical mergers. Deferential to legislatures in most constitutional disputes, Bork becomes positively Swiftian in his gloom about their capabilities in the economic field: "Congress as a whole is institutionally incapable...