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...Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help... Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachsund. The floor was a deep green marble, and it went on and on. It led to a five-foot walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above. It was the sort of apartment the mere thought of which ignites flames of greed and covetousness under people all over New York and, for the matter, all over the world. But Sherman burned only with the urge...
...Bruins (4-2 Ivy) swept the Crimson, 5-2 and 3-0, to close out the season for Harvard (11-11 overall). The two Ivy losses dropped Harvard's league record to 2-6, one game ahead of last-place Penn in the five-team league...
Harvard placed in the top five in all long distance events. Woden Teachout and Merrill McKenzie swept the 10,000 meters, finishing first and second, respectively. Sarah Wilcox placed second in the five kilometer run. Romney Resney was runner-up in the 3000 meters with a time of 10:01.2 and Tina Lount took fifth in the 1500 meters...
Certainly the hysteria that swept the West Coast after Pearl Harbor set the stage for some kind of drastic action. No rumor about Japanese Americans was too wild to be believed. Treasonous farmers were said to be growing tomatoes in arrow-shaped patches that pointed the way for enemy pilots to California defense plants. Nisei students were reported to be pouring into German- language classes at UCLA, presumably to help the Nazis. One story said wily Japanese saboteurs had quietly bought up land around West Coast military installations...
...have swirled around deep down in there, marinated in his special anger and ambition, sometimes for weeks. Then he speaks them into a tape recorder and hears them come back at him. And he tunes them and times them, then lofts them to the misty-eyed worshipers who are swept with him into the clouds...