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...doctor were last together--the doctor had been a failed suitor of Maria's. When he met her then, he had come to the mansion to treat the sick child of the servant-woman. Maria was married and bored. She invited the doctor to stay for supper, and then for the night; the weather was dreadful, she said, and her husband was in town on business. She later goes to his room and offers herself. The doctor tells her she has changed, become cold, indifferent and calculating, while Maria says that she "needs no pardon" and argues that...
...this point, however, Buckholz's bad angel has led him into a region of formidable murk. The stated business of the novel is nothing less than a search for the Unholy Grail-the pewter cup, Buckholz imagines, from which Judas drank at the Last Supper. The searchers are Matthew Mendelsohn, a 33-year-old former New York state senator, and Lise, a moonstruck German beauty. For three years they have excavated the beaches and caves of Ibiza -Lise because she believes with the force of mania that the cup is there, Matthew because he believes serenely in nothing...
...friends on The Crimson who consistently refused to put my name up for nomination tried to ease the blow by telling me that I was overglamorizing the Signet and that really it wasn't anything very special, but none the less Adams House where everybody repaired to supper before settling down to work allowed girls to eat there a couple of days a week, allowed Crimson women as a special favor to eat there a couple of other days a week, but still there were always a few days a week when our supper consisted of walking a few dozen...
...result, women on The Crimson simply never made that intellectual leap that's necessary for any kind of political action or reform. By that I mean the leap toward thinking of one's self as part of a class. If I couldn't get into Adams House to have supper on a Thursday night, it was me, Linda Greenhouse an editor of The Harvard Crimson who was somehow stupidly being kept out of that building. Not one Radcliffe woman as an example of a class of Radcliffe women who were not being allowed to eat at Adams House. The world...
Within no time, the Davidson Wildcats were as hungry as ole Lefty. To beef up a puny $500 recruiting budget, he siphoned off the bulk of the team's meal money by feeding the players pimento-cheese sandwiches, once even sending them to bed without supper after they lost six games in a row. In the off season he logged 50,000 miles on the back roads of the South and beyond, searching for talent. He parked in gas stations overnight, bedding down in the back of the car with a pistol for protection. At dawn, he would shave...