Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of Old Jimmy Watson, the last of Boston's town criers, who finally gave up the town-crying business in 1795 to set up a tavern. Unfortunately, the fact that The Bell In Hand is one of Boston's oldest taverns is one of its few distinctions. This bar is exceedingly popular with a uniform group of young professionals and what one patron termed "students after their M-R-S degree...
James M. Connolly acquired the establishment in1955 and introduced Lower Roxbury's jazz craze tohis bar...
...bar opened as Murray's Cafe in 1935,following the end of Prohibition, and acted as asocial center in what was a mostly Irish-Germanneighborhood...
...bar serves as a social center for much of the neighborhood in lower Roxbury, but the life inside the run-down structure is not always apparent to outsiders...
...blackboard, he chalks the elements of a short story: "character, language, situation, structure, plot." He does not add "drugs, booze, angry sex, bar fighting, class resentment, familial dysfunction." The kids will learn to chord this country music on their own. Or not. Now they seem shy and tentative. The professor tries to loosen them up: "A good writer steals from other writers," he says. "Got to be willing to steal, to pillage." Got to be willing, Russell Banks might say to himself, to be merely very good in novel after novel while critics use words like talented and valuable...