Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beacon Hill...
Oliver Wendell Holmes once described the Boston State House as "the hub of the solar system." Serenely situated on Beacon Hill, this masterpiece of Charles Bulfinch's design is as good a place to start as any. From the Hill streets stretch down to all parts of the city...
...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
...BEACON HILL: Juley Dassin's NEVER ON SUNDAY is not as good as he thinks it is, but it nevertheless must rank as well as one of the ten best foreign films of 1960. Despite an excruciating musical score, a didactic plot, and some rather pointless satire about American do-gooder schnooks, the movie must be admired for its brilliant photography and obvious zestful enjoyment of Grecian peasant life--and, of course, its week-night diversions. Evenings...
...crowd--"mostly beat types"--will then carry the mustached Rexroth on their shoulders from the station to Beacon Hill's Louisburg Square, where he will read one of his revolutionary poems, Blair said. Rexroth will give a reading sponsored by the Harvard Advocate in Sanders Theater tomorrow night...