Word: bostonianism
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...frankness of his ambition turns some people off because they think it's unseemly for a physician," said one Bostonian. Most likely, it will affect the Corporation the same...
...brought a real costumed band of piccolos, brass and drums right on stage. And he has appended a musical epilogue to Shaw's wildly cheering townspeople. After a performance of "Yankee Doodle," a group launches into William Billings' patriotic hymn "Chester"-a most fitting choice, for Billings was a Bostonian who had written the piece around the date of the play's incidents and incorporated into its verses specific references to New England and General Burgoyne...
...object of all this compassion is Love Story's heroine, Jenny Cavilleri. She is only a baker's daughter from Cranston, R.T., but her brains got her into Radcliffe, where she catches the eye of Oliver Barrett IV, scion of generations of Bostonian bluebloods. When they marry, OIlie is cut off by his father, struggles through his law-school years, finally lands a good job with a Wall Street firm. Then Jenny dies of leukemia. OIlie falls into his father's arms and-that's right-cries...
Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
Some solid achievements remain, of course. The American Language (and its supplements) has justly become a classic. Mencken's lively journalistic talents invigorated a generation of practitioners. The American Mercury waged brisk verbal war against Bostonian cultural fuddy-duddyism. The green cover of the Mercury, in fact, was once the badge of the campus intellectual. The views expressed seem far from revolutionary today, but they are more trenchant and readable than Marcuse or Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung...