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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Lewis H. Lapham
Born: January 8, 1935 (age 89)
Bio: Lewis Henry Lapham is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006.
Known for:
- Money and Class In America (1988)
- Gag rule (2004)
- Lapham's Rules of Influence (1999)
- Waiting for the barbarians (1997)
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