Word: streeter
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These changes were most obvious when Naddaff and her husband were asked to fill in as co-masters of Cabot House in the fall of 1992 for Yuri and Emmanuela Streeter, who took the semester off to travel. While Naddaff had won tenure as a professor of comparative literature and Leigh had been at Harvard briefly as a lecturer at Harvard Business School, neither had witnessed student life up close since their days as students...
Ellis didn't lack for formal audacity. He Cuisinarted a bunch of cultural influences, with Dostoyevsky, the '80s preppie-murder case and the original Psycho (Norman Bates=Patrick Bateman) sliced and spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy accidentally kills someone and gets hounded by an entire city. Patrick, who works at the same fictional firm as McCoy (Pierce and Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with...