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Someone developing a town on what used to be a swamp might put a word like Heights in the name to counteract negative feelings or fears people might have about leaking basements.
Father Jerome built a small Hermitage on the heights of Mount Alvernia that you’ll see as you reach the summit (a 15-minute walk from a rudimentary car park); the missionary was buried in a small hilltop cave here upon his death in 1956 at the age of 80.
His efforts to insinuate himself were so relentless that Cary Reich, the author of this sprawling new biography (and of an earlier biography of the financier André Meyer), refers to his subject as a "patrician Sammy Glick" (though he never reaches the heights of heeldom demonstrated by the hero of Budd Schulberg's novel about pre-war Hollywood back-stabbing).
I was not to know that, since hell in German means `bright,' this was merely an intimation to the townsfolk that although the town itself was plunged in fog, the sun was shining on the nearby heights.
--Fussbudget From Parma Heights