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microscope one reviewer said of him
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he understands the human-animal like no
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one else a good man to talk to about the
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tone of our time at the end of the
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millennium every age has a certain moral
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tone and no matter how you try to lead
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your life you are going to be affected
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by that moral tone you don't have any
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choice we are heading towards the total
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eclipse of all values and I don't get me
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wrong as a writer and perfectly
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delighted for things to remain the way
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they are I mean that the human comedy
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has never been richer no this is not Tom
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Wolfe's living room though it would be
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completely in character it is the new
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Reading Room of the New York Public
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Library a fitting place for a man of
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many words he is conservative in his own
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life yet as he says he delights in the
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folly of everyone else no more than 35
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years ago if any major public figure in
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the United States had gotten up to a
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microphone and said you know we should
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have in this country an institution
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known as the coed dorm and which downy
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nubile young things and young men in the
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season of the rising SAP she'll live
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together not only in the same building
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but along the same halls and using the
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same shower rooms well such a person who
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had been looked at
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as if his eyebrows have been eaten away
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by weevils all wonderful grist for the
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wolffian mill declining or just changing
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styles make for delicious confusion and
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the current trends but leads to so many
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bad marriages I mean the poor girl
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doesn't realize that can't tell whether
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the boy is the heir to a computer
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fortune or the second drummer in a rock
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band is because they all dress the old
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dress and the old taco light formal
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dress lives on usually on the backs of
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doormen and elevator men and New York
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the doorman looked like my 1870 Austrian
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army Colonels and and the and the
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tenants looked like refugees from a bad
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film does that displease your are you
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able to accept this as a constantly
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changing panorama for you personally it
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displeased me a great deal I think
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there's a real purpose to formality
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there's a real purpose to telling people
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how you expect to be treated no one
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defines himself more clearly than Tom
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Wolfe striving white suited in all
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seasons through the gritty streets of
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New York he appears to be some throwback
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perhaps to more man early days in fact
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he uses words like weapons as in his
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dissection of the ruling class in
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bonfire of the vanities you you wasp
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charity Barlow's sitting on your mounds
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of inherited money up in your co-opt
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with the 12-foot ceilings and you German
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Jewish finance seers who have finally
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made it into the same buildings there
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better to insulate yourself from the
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shtetl hordes what role do business
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leaders play in society business leaders
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I find actually plays very little role I
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think it would be wonderful if a
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business leaders would weigh in to not
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only political questions but moral
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questions right now they're afraid to do
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it you've said they appoint themselves
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or see to it or buy their way into
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cultural institutions that is the new
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religion for educated and well
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do people today any business leader who
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publicly announced his religious
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activity would be considered an idiot
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you just don't do that and what do you
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do now to prove your spiritual
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worthiness you try to become a member of
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the museum board you know it's the art
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museum that is that certifies your
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spiritual worthiness today at the age of
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68 Tom Wolfe like his latest title is a
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man in full domestically content at the
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summit of a brilliant career life lived
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at a gentle measured pace personal
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correspondence written by hand in copper
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plate style making the simple business
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of opening a letter from him a small joy
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his word processor is rooted firmly out
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of cyberspace but with wolfy and Glee he
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relishes the newest of the new social
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theories there's a steady up that shows