Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only walked a few paces when I stumbled upon an M.P. sitting on a sailor who had passed out in front of the Boston Public Library. The world surged into my stomach and I suddenly saw Tides of Passion as it really was. For $1.50 I had escaped for three full hours (there were several short subjects). Escape, pure and simple. At fifty cents an hour, what more could...
...injured righteousness, the facts of the situation point in a somewhat different direction. The first Unofficial Guide appeared September, 1952. The Harvard Handbook of 1952 contains nothing in common with this Guide. However, the 1953 Handbook contains verbatim the "Foreword" and about ten interior pages, including articles an "The Boston Area," "How to Meet Women," and "Finding Your Way" from the 1952 Guide. The (then) responsible Handbook committee printed an acknowledgment: "To the Graduate Student Council ... we give our warmest appreciation." Future Handbooks continued to use freely material from the successive Unofficial Guides, reprinting the sections on "Movies," "Theaters," "Music...
...demanded houses which were to be passing fayre, in the language of the time, houses which were to represent social status. And so, when the satanic redmen had at last been driven from Beacon Hill, and the kinddom of God more firmly established, the seeds of a Londonesque Boston began to sprout forth...
There are, of course, other Bostons within the city; but it would be difficult and probably unkind to impose the idea upon a public whose impressions of the unchanged aspects of American culture revolve about Boston and Brooklyn...
...great wasteland effect of Huntington Ave., better forgotten perhaps, and the histrionics of Washington Street, of a more recent vintage. There are the outlying districts, the products of a new economy, functional in their own way. None the less, the antique shimmer of a Brahman past has always represented Boston qua Boston, and most likely it always will.. . . Stained glass keeps out the light...