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What I love about exploring is finding something, whether it be a store, a street or a neighborhood that completely characterizes a city. I found the real Boston on Charles Street in Beacon Hill...
...garish Crimson Key shirt not only helps me identify other members of the group, but also serves as a familiar beacon for first-years seeking help or advice. Similarly, the FUP T-shirt and the Currier and Mower shirts communicate to those both inside and outside the group. They provide a uniform dress so members of each group can feel bonded to each other while at the same time conveying a message about their interests to others who see and read the shirt...
...prospered during the anti-Semitic Stalin years, while other notable Jewish writers were judicially murdered; he was a poet and novelist who won the Stalin Prize while his personal friends Osip Mandelstam and Isaac Babel were sent to the gulag. Clearly, Ehrenburg was no beacon of conscience...
...crest of Boston's Beacon Hill, a bronze monument portrays Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in their assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in July 1863--a battle that cost the young aristocrat and nearly a hundred of his troops their lives. When the Union army asked for his body, a Confederate officer replied, "We have buried him with his niggers." Shaw's sacrifice--memorialized by the poet James Russell Lowell as a "death for noble ends"--has become an emblem of the lofty idealism that inspired New England's 19th...
...week later, Christy, accompanied by her mother, returned to Dr. Gupta, whom they still viewed as a beacon of warmth. "There's lots of hope, lots of things to do," Nesmith recalls his saying. Christy, dissatisfied with her reception at Scripps and reluctant to undergo months of treatment away from home, wanted a referral for a second local evaluation, this time at UCLA. Dr. Gupta agreed to make such a recommendation in writing, says Nesmith. He told Christy and her mother to go somewhere for lunch and then come back; the letter would be ready...