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Byline: William Norwich
A visitor who arrives early for an appointment with Robin Chandler Duke waits quietly in the 82-year-old political activist's perfect living room.
With spacious river views north, east, and south, the L-shaped room is beautiful: gently streaked Ming-green walls, floral prints, embassy-high ceilings, and polished-wood floor. It feels like, as one of Duke's biographers has written, "an old Charleston mansion magically transported to a Manhattan apartment building."
The visitor cannot see the lady's arrival but hears her from
the foyer, the pearly ambassadorial alto never flighty, just
soaring like an ...