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...Boylston Hall was a hub of gastronomic and cultural excitement Sunday, as the Burma Fair, organized by the Friends of Burma, drew fairgoers to refreshment booths...
...addition to browsing among the booths, visitors to the fair could watch several dance performances on the Boylston Hall steps...
Heaney left the farm to study English at Queen's University of Belfast, and then to teach. As his poetry began to attract attention and praise, a succession of academic posts beckoned; between 1989 and 1994, he was both the professor of poetry at Oxford and the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. And he attracted hordes of acolytes and admirers along the way, a bearish, affable bard equally at ease in faculty room...
Sporting more than 50 new members, the 80-seat Undergraduate Council held its annual orientation meeting in Boylston Hall last night, where new members were introduced to all aspects of council protocol, from parliamentary procedure to attendance to officer elections...
...closest he came to the rococo sparkle of English portraiture was in his 1767 portrait of Nicholas Boylston, Boston's biggest luxury-goods importer: blue-chinned, sharp-eyed and relaxed in his morning panoply of damask dressing gown, unbuttoned waistcoat (showing the careless ease of the gentleman) and velvet turban. His ships ply the sea behind him, and his arm rests on an account ledger. As art historian Paul Staiti observes in an excellent catalog essay, Copley's clients liked his style because it was so embedded in the world of substance and inventories that had made them what they...