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...keep things in perspective for those of you lucky enough to have avoided the Arena, the Boston Garden was built to replace the Arena. Yes it's that old. And that decrepit. And Northeastern gets to play its home games there. Lucky dogs. The seats are so uncomfortable that I couldn't sit down again for an hour following the contest without feeling their after-effects. And you thought Watson Rink...
...unfathomable, and unimportant. What matters is that they look powerful. With their gleaming metal fittings, their haloes of mysterious tubing, the no-nonsense names carefully lettered on their sides, and the earth-shaking noises they make, they embody kind of pure horsepower that anyone who ever drove a decrepit jacked up Studebaker always longed for. The show's charm arises mostly from the likenesses and the occasional contrasts between Jim and Jeremiah. Jim Rippe is aware that he takes the same delight in the appearance of power in machinery as his fictional forbear. Yet the intervening century has given...
...down on every ballot." Everything is permitted in the university, he said, so long as it adorns the elegance and privilege of Boston. That which implies an ethical provocation is not given voice. Generosity of thought within this university, he said, has a bad name: "The youths come out decrepit citizens...
...north as promised, and even undertake to find a job for the alien once he has arrived. But for their employment services, the smugglers sometimes demand in addition up to half of a man's salary for his first two months at work. Some smuggling rings also operate decrepit rooming houses and charge a man $35 a week to share a two-room apartment with four others...
...Boston's decrepit, 122-yearold Charles Street jail, a man brought in on charges arising out of an automobile accident complained of back pains. Only when his mother bailed him out three days later and took him across the street to Massachusetts General Hospital did he learn that his spine was fractured...