Word: deverism
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...Presnick LB 6-1 205 Jr. West Haven, CT 88 Eugene Profit SE 5-11 178 Se. Los Angles, CA 7 Jim Pucci QB 6-2 210 Se. Annonia, CT 14 Mare Quinlivan SE 6-6 190 Jr. Oak Park, IL 85 Jim Quinn DE 6-3 205 Se. Dever, MA 16 John Quinn DE 6-3 205 Se. Dever, MA 25 Bon Quineness DB 5-11 170 Se. Claremont, CA 49 Tony Resch DB 6-1 180 Jr. Philadelphia, PA 37 Dave Rohol MG 5-10 210 Sr. Stew, OH 83 Gregery Rohde SE 6-3 196 Se. Seminele...
...World. Rooted in that experience is the glorification of the common man and the desire for a common-man presidency, a celebration of the ordinary. The other strain is the American longing for an aristocracy, the buried dynastic, monarchical urge. "Jack is the first Irish Brahmin," said Paul Dever, a former Massachusetts Governor. He had both Harvard and Honey Fitz in him. He was an intellectual who could devastate any woman in the room and devour Melbourne in a speed reader's blitz and curse like the sailor that he also...
...mayor claims among his culinary achievements the invention of the hero sandwich roll), and then went looking for a job. Naturally, the first place for a young politician to look in those days was the State House, so he finessed his way into an interview with then-Gov. Paul Dever. Dever, the story goes, was so impressed with Vellucci's reputation as a rising political star (he had already made a name for himself as a perennial School Committee candidate) that he arranged the tax department job on the spot." Paul Dever was a fine man," Vellucci concludes...
KEVIN McCLUSKEY grew up in Columbia Point in the early sixties when the Point was racially mixed. For six years he attended Dever Elementary School and he knows that white and black children can attend the same school without conflict. Last year while serving as a high school representative on the Boston School Committee Kevin came to know why most schools in Boston remain racially segregated. "The members of the School Committee are, above all interested in their political futures." Kevin explains, and it has been politically expedient in Boston to oppose school integration...
Kevin McCluskey moved from Columbia Point to Dorchester and from Dever Elementary Harvard. Though the community in which he now lives has opposed school integration in the past, he believes that it would accept it if those authority were solidly behind it. "It's too bad that the whole thing is in the hands of politicians...