Word: baron
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William Fowler's The Baron of Beacon Hill enters the world of the "In" and "Out" of revolutionary Boston. His narrative biography examines the man behind the signature, interjecting vitality into a historical figure who dominated the American political scene for more than three decades...
...attention to Harvard's and Boston's past adds a dimension that should appeal to those interested in local history. He teaches a course on the city, and his bulletin board, covered with Red Sox bumper stickers and posters of Boston, reflects his love for the city. The Baron of Beacon Hill traces Boston's development from a network of cowpaths into a matrix of cobblestone streets leading to the suburbs just beginning to spring up. Fowler also describes a visit, not unlike one last fall, by John Carroll, the first American Roman Catholic bishop, who celebrated mass in Boston...
Yerushalmi came to Harvard in 1966, after receiving his doctorate from Columbia, studying under Salo W. Baron. Four years later he received tenure at Harvard as he became Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization...
Yosef H. Yerushalmi, chairman of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department, will leave Harvard this summer for a position as director of the Columbia University Center for Israel and Jewish Studies and as the Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society...
Purists of the Olympics argue a bit romantically that the Games must be above politics, that regimes and secular squabbles come and go, that political issues are always transient, that the Olympic spirit is transcendent. That is what Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Panglossian founder of the modern Olympics intended. During the twelve centuries of the ancient Games, warring states and tribes suspended their homicidal business every four years and flocked to the sweet valley beyond Mount Kromion to compete for crowns of wild olive. Now, some athletes complain, a reverse logic applies; the Games get suspended at the first...