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The August of Our Discontent: Eternal lessons from a hot and hairy month.
Relatively simple breakdowns in power transmission, and accordant human lapses, plunged millions on the East Coast into darkness. The lifestyle of postmodern man in sophisticated New York was reduced -- in seconds - - to that of his 18th- or 19th-century forebears. Stylish executives, with alligator briefcases and cell phones, on their way home to the suburbs in Connecticut, were felled -- forced to nap, for the night, on dirty sidewalks astride the homeless. The age-old banes of nature -- darkness, heat, distance -- cared little for our professionals' hard- earned entitlements, and gave them no class preference or exemption from the elements when the aegis of the modern ...
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