Word: bostonians
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This was the method pursued by Francis Parkman (1823-93), a wealthy and well-bred Bostonian who entered Harvard in 1840 and began experiencing what he called "symptoms of 'Injuns' on the brain." These soon led to an ambitious disease; the undergraduate decided to write the history of "the whole course of the American conflict between France and England." This task, which lasted his lifetime, was fulfilled in seven books that were published between...
There was 27-year-old Greg Meyer running the least six miles by himself, coming on so-close to a course record on route to his 2:08:54 championship run And there was native Bostonian Joan Benoit shattering the women's world marathon record with a time...
...medic and was Regular Army to his jodhpurs, Potter became the stern but sentimental father figure every MASHman needed 7,000 miles from home. Similarly, B.J. Hunnicut was an idealistic Marin County version of Trapper John, and Winchester, however smug he might appear to be about his old-money Bostonian lineage, was a Persian pussycat compared with Frank Burns. Each of these characters and actors fed the M*A*S*H organism without disrupting it. Each helped keep the show alive and healthy without breaking the circle...
...solution lacks the consideration usually accorded to our "diverse" student population. An equal allocation, pay as you go policy is discriminatory to financial aid students, as well as to students living any farther than the local area. While summer storage might be relatively painless and cost free for a Bostonian, a Californian with a truckload of belongings will not have such an easy time...
...sporadic attention of a few graffiti artists and the ever-present urban pigeon. The Bicentennial celebrations of the mid 1970s, a high-water mark for statuesque snapshots of Paul Revere and the Minutemen, attracted a mob of patriotic Americans who looked for history etched in stone, but since then Bostonian public sculpture had faded into the surrounding landscape once again. Now, though, controversy over one such artistic conception of the past may result in the removal of a well-known Park Square landmark later this month...