Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lifelong resident of the City of Boston, I was offended by the recent article in What Is To Be Done, "Southie Solipsisms." The article stereotyped South Bostonians as a bunch of racist, ignorant derelicts and perpetuated the misconceptions concerning a strong, vibrant community. My letter is not an attempt to whitewash the racial violence that has occurred in South Boston but instead to criticize anyone who seeks to rubber-stamp communities or people as belonging to a certain mold...
...gimmick. All you need is a gimmick to give the Harvard-Yale game its annual place of ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
...quiet gentleman from Beverly Farms who wants to be governor of Massachusetts--are not what you would expect. The walls are yellow and peeling--just a little hole in the wall on 14 Beacon Street. One switchboard, six telephones, no hold buttons, no cotton ribbed turtlenecks--just a bunch of kids, sitting around stuffing envelopes. There is one sign on the wall. "Make the King the Ruler of Massachusetts for the next four years, and you'll think Henry the VIII was a nice...
...Elevator.........Ra---diator." The mannequins next to the stageset gazed lifelessly on a bunch of variously dissheveled rockies doing, en masse, their Keith Richards imitations, getting into it, encased by the cracked plaster of a boxing gym and the boxing posters (from Marciano to Frazier) which marked the time-honored Garden Gym. The "Snow...blind." The smoke drifted over from the grille, covering liquor breaths and camera clarity. Johnson led into some other songs behind his tapeband including "Catch a Fallen Star," the most impressive of the bunch. He spaced-out Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" (a testimonial...
Shevchenko's easy exposure has embarrassed the CIA. One of its former top officials complained that the agency handled the case "like a bunch of Keystone Kops." It is also quite possible that the CIA has been relatively lax with Shevchenko because he has been far less valuable as an intelligence source than had been anticipated. Although one of the highest-ranking Soviets ever to defect, he had little knowledge of the inner workings of current Soviet policies or intelligence operations. His reputation at the U.N. for heavy drinking and a weakness for shapely women may have...