Word: suttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing this while lolling around a pool in the Bahamas. Yes, I know you think I've got a cushy job. But that's nothing compared with Remar Sutton's. You know -- the fat, bald 45-year-old guy who decided to chuck it all, move to an island and dedicate a year of his life to becoming a hunk. He's been chronicling his progress in a series of wry letters appearing in scores of newspapers, but maybe you haven't been reading them. My friends find his quest both repellent (classic male vanity) and intriguing (classic male fantasy...
...Nature lovers will enjoy walks along public paths around the island's perimeter and hiking through the acres of woodlands and grassy clearings that are part of the Harvard properties," reads a brochure advertising scenic Sutton Island that was recently circulated by Harvard Real Estate to faculty members. The island, "a place for quiet retreat and enjoyment of nature," is the site of Harvard's Kendall and Paine Houses...
Harvard also maintains two residences, Kendall and Paine Houses, on scenic Sutton Island. The houses, which have undergone extensive renovations in the past few years, are frequently filled in the summertime, according to Sally H. Zeckhauser, president...
...realize that she is holding the wrong book and interviewing the wrong author"). Rowan enthusiastically forwards some of these to his staff, tactfully describes others as "filed." A couple of hopelessly naive notions, writes Rowan, "simply point out -- old recluse -- that you get out about as often as Willie Sutton...
...being totally right in all things." After this, does Rowan take MacDonald's well-intentioned scolding to heart and renew the friendship on a deeper, more self-aware basis? Or does he bitterly take offense and break everything off? Even readers who get out about as often as Willie Sutton should know the answer to that...