Word: bostonianism
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...evening of contemporary theatre in the little Hotel Bostonian Playhouse can be doubly sour if the acid of The Bald Soprano dissolves the sugar of The Dock Brief. Or it can be doubly rewarding. But there is no easy metaphor to explain how, so you will have to see it yourself...
...legwork. So far, Smith has been to New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and Indiana, examining state organizations for weaknesses. After he visited Ohio, where Democrats are badly split, Smith sent in two trusted troubleshooters-former Wisconsin Party Chairman Pat Lucey and Bostonian Helen Keyes-to act as "state coordinators." In Indianapolis, a Smith-inspired voter registration drive brought 32,000 new names to Democratic rolls, but similar registration efforts in New York, New Jersey and Ohio have met with less success...
...Filene's shoppers consist of Bostonians, Greater Bostonians and Proper Bostonians. There is no such thing as an "ordinary Bostonian...
...Theatre Company of Boston, not yet four months old and struggling to become established, is presenting an extraordinary production of "The Caretaker." In the intimate theatre at the Hotel Bostonian, author Harold Pinter, director David Wheeler, and the cast of three, transpose the problem--long a scientific enigma--of the interaction of three bodies into human terms with such brilliance that one perceives a solution: the problem is impossible...
...character is seen with some compassion only when she feels as Miss McCarthy might feel; for instance, when Dottie Renfrew, a proper Bostonian, declares her love (on the eve of her marriage) for a no-account Village painter who deflowered her the year before...