Word: bostonianism
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Rowe was succeeded by Paul S. Grogan, a Bostonian who had spent his career in community development. Grogan had been CEO and President of the Local Initiative Support Corporation, a non-profit organization that provides funding for urban development...
...many Red Sox fans, humiliating the Expos in their own home park was the ultimate ego-building experience. But that rush of self-esteem in Bostonian veins was sucked straight out of the Montreal faithful, victims of a seemingly doomed franchise. In Monday’s game, a grandmother escorted her nine-year old grandson to the V.I.P. section. The child, wide-eyed with an Expos cap and baseball glove, looked bewildered as he was surrounded by six-foot tall Red Sox fans. The grandmother frowned every time they stood up to cheer and did not utter a word...
...naked boy stands at the edge of the woods, butt twisted toward the camera. The weeds in the foreground are excruciatingly in-focus. The title is "Marble Faun," evoking Hawthorne's primal America. The photographer is Fred Holland Day, a forgotten Bostonian who was famous in his time...
...stretch. The character walks a fine line between brash confidence and paralyzing fear-and by making this confusion seem genuine, Damon succeeds in winning the audience's sympathy. What impresses me most about Damon, though, is his linguistic versatility. After all, not many actors can flip between a Bostonian accent and a Southern drawl with such apparent ease...
Other students, like Geoffrey S. Harcourt '04, have taken the rivalry a step further. "As a true Bostonian, I want them both to lose," Harcourt said...