Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other members of the Corporation said yesterday it was important that Burr's replacement be a Bostonian because of the current members only President Bok and University Treasurer George Putnam live in the area...
...first to admit it. She still giggles over a Lampoon parody of her paper: "page after page, a boring list of names--'The Gazette Announces...'it was excellent." Yet she expresses a good deal of pride in the publication as well: "We view ourselves as a very proper, mellifluous Bostonian: sensationalism is not our thing." The perfect University PR people are "writers who love Harvard, who love the written word, and love to do features," she says. Under Lord's direction, the Gazette has spruced up its appearance in recent years and now includes well-received photo features...
Maxwell summed up: "It was like a pendulum. We thrashed them a couple of times, but they came back each time. We just played hard and things finally kept falling our way." As any Bostonian of a certain age can attest, that has always been the Celtic way. -B.J. Phillips Reported by Jamie Murphy/Houston
...Treasury Alarm, Jocelyn Davey's fifth Usher novel, Ambrose is in the exotic city of Boston to deliver a series of lectures at nearby Harvard. The Treasury-"the innerest of inner circles" -asks him to look over an improper Bostonian named George Fletcher, who is busily gobbling up key British companies, possibly for the Soviets. Usher had known and much disliked the conglomerator in his days as an economic attache to the British embassy in Washington (A Capitol Offense). He had also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving...
...Lowell's audience found it impossible to resist a literal interpretation of these poems; they saw the sister of the president of Harvard cavorting nude with female amorists in bathtubs and swimming pools. What the Bostonian intended as harmless and playful looked lewd and lascivious, as though she were flaunting her nude figure and amorous desires in the faces of her beholders...seeing this unexpectedly large woman stand upon a stage reciting verse of this nature, and knowing at the same time that she was a Lowell, was enough to knock the stuffing out of any self-respecting crowd...