Word: beacon
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...natural result of its creation back in 1936. Founded by Nathaniel Saltonstall and a group of Harvard affiliates as a satellite of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the institute was originally called the Museum of Modern Art in Boston. Located in a brownstone on Beacon St., the museum served as a venue for the traveling exhibitions of its New York parent, and at the instruction of MOMA, it concentrated on the Northern European modernist painters, leaving the New York branch to deal primarily with the Paris school of modernists. For some years this was a most...
...them would have added a touch of class to the dreary Chicago election, and any one of them would make a better mayor than incumbent White, who has had several sides indicted on corruption charges and has himself been linked to such high-level scandals as selling a Beacon Hill town house for a dollar. But wholesomeness doesn't equal victory, especially in a town that is rather blase by now about corruption...
Warner said he check the Lyric Stage, on the corner of Charles and Beacon Streets in Boston, for "its central location in a beautiful area of town, and for its workable space...
...venerable men's club, the sole setting of The Middle Ages. In a time of ethnicity, the club remains a haven for an embattled Wasp old guard. For the younger generation that departs on a picaresque journey through the chaotic world outside, the club is a beacon, a symbol of the formative power of tradition even on those who would escape its sway...
...self-respect returns, Clarisse's need to hide herself vanishes, and in a striking scene Julien sees her true beauty; "Just then the beacon from the lighthouse crossed her face and Julien was left petrified. Her make-up had given way under the tears and Kleenex and like the ramparts of a city it had crumbled and seeped away...