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...possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank, 37, a colorful and outspoken leader of the party's liberal wing. Outraged incumbents called Keverian a "butcher" and a "stooge." Keverian conceded that his plan involved not so much punishing dissidents as remembering...
Paco always knew it was the stereotypes that matter--like the fiery Chicano stereotype that had taken out of the migrant's school outside of San Francisco and had put him in the gringo school outside of Beacon Hill. But gradually that year he understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander...
...time may have come to Boston. Led by Janice Cashell, 32, an actress-director-teacher from Florida, the Massachusetts Center Repertory managed not only to raise $250,000 before the first-night curtain went up but also to gather together on its board of directors city hall politicians and Beacon Hill nabobs, to say nothing of Helen Hayes and Mrs. Curt Gowdy. Any group that can accomplish either of these feats ought to be able to survive Strindberg. Melvin Maddocks
Sensing that the time was ripe for action in the Bay State last winter, Oteri assumed responsibility for directing NORML's lobbying efforts on Beacon Hill. The decriminalization issue had benefited from a recent Oteri test case on cocaine. In a Roxbury Court last fall, Judge Elwood McKinney ruled that cocaine prohibition in its present form was unconstitutional. According to some observes, the cocaine controversy has drawn attention away from decriminalization, giving both politicians and drug-oriented interest groups more room in which to maneuver...
...caught my first sight of the Prudential Tower from the Beacon Circle in Brookline, four miles from the finish. A mile later it didn't seem any closer. But as long as I could see it, I felt all right. When, at times, it disappeared from view, I felt myself noticeably slowing down. Miles that clipped by at the beginning take an eternity at the end. Especially the last...