Word: bostonianism
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...open its new season the Theatre Company of Boston is, as usual, presenting a pair of expertly staged modern plays. With works by Camus, cummings, Brecht, and Ibsen in prospect for the fall and winter, the Hotel Bostonian Playhouse should continue to offer the liveliest and most interesting drama in town...
...right-wing," anti-ecumenical Protestant clergyman, I tried to read your article on Richard Cardinal Gushing [Aug. 21] with proper disgust, but nostalgia got the best of me. Any Bostonian worth his salt cod has to be proud of this grand old man and his antics. Like our glorious Tea Party, he will always be part of my Boston. (THE REV.) R. W. NICKERSON Lisbon...
...Bostonian from New York Sir: The proposal that Bobby Kennedy declare himself a candidate for the Senate from New York [Aug. 14] is a shocking denial of the traditional belief that members of Congress should understand and represent the interests of their constituents. The legacy of John F. Kennedy appears not to be freedom for all mankind but rather political remuneration for family and friends...
...product of South Boston's melting pot ghetto, Cushing feels a Bostonian kinship to the Kennedys. The cardinal's father, after emigrating from County Cork in 1880, became a blacksmith for the old Boston Elevated. "We were ordinary people, but comfortable," Cushing recalls...
...taciturn, scholarly, pipe-smoking Bostonian who spent most of his professional years on Massachusetts papers, Lyons was a logical choice for the post. His reporting was often concerned with the campus. One of his first scoops, for the Springfield, Mass., Republican, concerned an academic scandal at Amherst College that led to the forced resignation of Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn. And even before departing the Boston Globe, his last paper, Lyons began doubling as a public relations aide to James B. Conant, then Harvard's president...