Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dump is just a nice place for people to meet, leave trash, vow eternal friendship and go their ways." So spoke Northeastern University's Professor Everett Marston of Duxbury, Mass, one day last week. Duxbury (pop. 4,280), like many upper-middle-income bedroom communities that sprawl around Boston, is the scene of a new form of social phenomenon-somewhat like the old town pump-that is coming to full flower in New England. In Duxbury's town dump, as in Lincoln's, Hingham's and Wayland's, local citizens who can well afford...
...cultural critics believe that only four North American cities are habitable: New York, San Francisco, Boston and Montreal...
Thanks to Walter Winchell, the Beatniks and Cleveland Amory (who are scarcely ever considered bedfollows), New York, San Francisco and Boston have been very capably extolled. Each of the three cities has specific and very different virtues that are celebrated in ways that are unique to its environment...
Despite an historically inaccurate interpretation by Charles Munch, Bach's St. Matthew Passion received a generally good performance yesterday from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, five soloists, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. In most places not up to the exacting standards set by Hermann Scherchen on Westminster records, Mr. Munch's rendition was marred seriously by his treatment of Bach as Verdi, and by the unfortunate deletion of many beautiful arias and chorales. He also cut parts of reciatatives, which are essential to the full meaning of the story of the Passion and of the work...
...Harvard Dramatic Club is planning a trip to Boston University to give its members and candidates an opportunity for studying television techniques, Nicholas S. Thompson '60, vice-president of the Club, announced recently. This event, the first in a series of specal opportunities for HDC members, is tentatively scheduled for April...