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Word: boston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship with his mother was also occasionally explosive, Simpson writes. And Robert Lowell hinted at the sadness of his childhood in his later confessional poems, one of which describes his fictional stay in a mental asylum where all the patients were from Harvard and all the monitors came from Boston University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Troubled Generation | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

When I landed in Omaha, I was greeted by a warmness foreign to Logan Airport. The stereotype of Midwestern friendliness seemed so appropriate when compared with Boston's chilly, look-at-your-feet-when-you-walk-attitude. Passers-by smiled and said, "Hello...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Tales of a Lost Wanderer in Nebraska | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

...Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" suddenly became "Andy, I know we're not in Boston anymore...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Tales of a Lost Wanderer in Nebraska | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

Sunday, I returned to Boston: streets were narrower, people walked faster and cars inched their way to cut off angles. I stepped into a bar and asked the bartender how he was and if if he could...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Tales of a Lost Wanderer in Nebraska | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

Still, though, in spite of all the fringe benefits, the noise is driving me crazy! Why couldn't these buildings go up in the middle of the Yard, or at the Quad, or on the Boston Common? Why in my back yard...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Why in My Backyard? | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

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