The Boston Globe, October 31st, 2004
George Apley, we are told, was born on the steeper part of Mount Vernon Street in 1866 and died a short distance away, on the water side of Beacon Street, in 1933. His life, then, was severely circumscribed, not unlike that of the koala bear, which has been known to travel a mere few hundred yards in the course of its life, working its way through the leaves of a eucalyptus grove. Apley is echt Boston Brahmin. His uncle William prides himself on taking the trolley, buys one new suit a year, and donates a raft of Rembrandts to the art museum. His grandfather, who built a mansion in the South En...
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