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...from New York, a city not noted for its gentle traffic manners, tells of the time he lost a muffler on Storrow Drive to a Bostonian aggressively merging onto that thoroughfare. The Bostonian, despite the fact that he shed his own bumper in the clash, never glanced to either side and sped on when the New Yorker pulled over to exchange insurance information...
...creative nouvelle American cuisine in a subdued but elegant setting, The Seasons may be Boston's best. Overlooking Faneuil Hall Marketplace in the Bostonian Hotel, it also offers an incomparable selection of American wines. Rarities in the new Charles Hotel at Harvard Square offers equally innovative continental fare with impeccable service. Both establishments may face some stiff competition from another newcomer, Le Marquis de Lafayette at Lafayette Place, whose wunderkind chef should soon become the talk of the town...
According to Bostonian Robert G. Gordon '60, founder and head of the Store 24, Inc., "It just seemed normal not to be politically active. The world seemed to be the way it was regardless of what we did. There didn't appear to be things to get passionately involved...
Kerouac himself describes a deflant search for good times in an essay. The Roaming Beatniks. The Beats' critics get a word in, too--from the granted condescension of Bostonian poet John Ciardi to the quasi-intellectual sneering of Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz. And New York Times accounts of Beat revelry round out the assortment of perspectives...
SIPPING CAPPUCINO in a Greek restaurant, Pamela Yates and Tom Sigel look like an all-too-typical, yuppie couple enjoying a comfortable, Bostonian existence. Only when they start to talk, he more reticently but just as intensely as she, do they reveal the passion which has led them--by jeep, horseback and foot--throughout all of Central America...