Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston got that way has been written down in the involved accounts of many long books. The Puritans are blamed, or the Irish, or the Italians, or the weather, or Curley, or Beacon Hill, or the Red Sox, or social forces...
...surveyors will find a very peculiar sort of Ivy League institution. Once great, it was described by the Beards' in The Rise of American Civilization as "a beacon light in the long history of human intelligence...
Furcolo's margin of victory, in a primary where more than two-thirds of his party participated, is taken as an encouraging sign by Democrats bent on recapturing Beacon Hill. With Democratic registration up 60,000 over 1952 and GOP totals down by 7,000, the Democrats are looking forward to an election in which their party regularity will be a significant asset. But the members of each faction total only 700,000 each in a constituency of two and a half million registered voters, so the independent--who in Massachusetts is typically the sought-after member of an ethnic...
This small fugitive is one of a multitude of moppets whose searching, touching, and often embarrassing queries fill the pages of The Questioning Child and Religion (Beacon Press; $3), by Edith F. Hunter. Author Hunter, who has three questioning children of her own, is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary. Currently, she is a curriculum editor for the educational division of the Council of Liberal Churches-the council that governs the two-year-old federation of the Unitarians and Universalists. Author Hunter thus speaks especially to religious "liberals" who are inclined to regard Jesus as great rather...
Since the beacon on the Empire State was extinguished, says the Audubon Society, no birds have crashed. The revolving lights that march around the building's top seem to be no menace to the birds. The light does not touch them long enough to lead them astray...